LOWER MANGOREI MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 209, 10 May 1912, Page 6

LOWER MANGOREI MATTERS.

To the Editor. Sir,—ln your issue of the Ist inst., I noticed a long letter under the heading of Lower Mangorei from a correspondent. That correspondent seems to take a keen interest in ( :is "suburb," as he calls it. It seer to me that he hae used your columns to ventilate his own grievances with the late road board. An individual made representations to the Mangorei Road Board more than' once with the object of having a range* 1 placed on the road, but as the Board considered ifc not in the interests of the district under its jurisdiction, no action was taken. The Board had the interests of the community to consider before those of an individual. He says th'at only a short time since, a cyclist passing at night by the residence of the chairman of the Road Board came to grief over one of the horses usually camped upon the road. If he wishes to suggest that horses are usually camped on the road at night, in front of or near my residence, all I can say is that it is a deliberate falsehood, and the cyclist must, like himself, travel at night without a light and fall over his own shadow, and think it is a horse, when in reality it is only a long-eared animal. I think that if plenty of soft soap and palaver will win over county councillors, we will have a ranger on the Mangorei road, and all those road improvements effected as suggested in quick time if you will only allow your paper to be the medium for administering such like doses.—l am, etc., W. G. STANTON". , Mangorei, May 8, 1912.