AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 281, 6 May 1915, Page 2

AT YOUR OWN RISK.

To the Editor. Sir,—Being one of the many who use the tunnel on tho Pukcaruhe coast road, I feel disgusted to think that one of the members of the Clifton County Council should propose that a placard should be posted up in forming the public that they were passing through the tunnel at their own risk. I might say that I am ashamed of the two members of the Mokau riding to sit silent while such an absurd resolution was being carried. In the first place, did any one of the Council give ifi a thought what damage the number of stock, quoted by Mr. Collins, would do to Alt. Messenger road, where the Council have many men employed, compared witli the damage to several mile 3 of beach and a few miles of road, where they have one man on only halftime? In the second place, have they considered for one minute tho inconsidered the inconvenience that a great number of ratepayers will be put to by being forced to travel an extra eight miles of Uruti Valley road, especially in the winter, when the C.C.C. make a point of creating a few impassable bogs ? Apart from this,' Mr. Editor, at every sale north of Tongaporutu we see a fair sprinkling of farmers from Pukcaruhe to Mimi who come to buy, as they can get up the beach and return the same day, but the Council are forcing them to go from fourteen miles extra or take tlie beach road at their own risk. I have ascertained the cost of repairing this dangerous piece of road (which i<s about one chain) from several men of long experience, and their estimates vary from ten pounds to the amount of advertising the fact that one may use it at one's own risk. Surely, Mr. Editor, if the Clifton County Council still adhere to the resolution passed at their last meeting it is a fitting occasion to take Up a collection to defray the expenses of two doctors to visit the Council chambers. Thanking you in anticipation for your valuable space,—l am, etc., Y. O. RISK.