TIRED OF THE MUD.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1919, Page 6

TIRED OF THE MUD.

PIKO WOMEN WANT A ROAD. AN EARNEST APPEAL. A pathetic appeal for roading facilities came before the Clifton County Council yesterday, when Mrs. F. M. Whitaker and several other women on the Piko Road petitioned to have the road metalled. The petition Btated that there had been £ISOO granted, of which part had been granted by the Government since 1912. As mothers of sons who fought for justice and freedom, they thought they should have a little justice shown to them, and not have to bog another win-' ter through mud girth deep. They really thought it a shame that they should be called upon to do so. Last winter, when they needed their surfaceman most, he was taken away to make a road for maintenance metal, which they thought wag a Very unfair act. Other men had their maintenance metal carted to them. Of course the plea had always been no labor, but there had never been a tender called to see if there was labor to be had. They also asked if they had a councillor for their road. There had never been anyone for a long time to see if they needed metal or not. If the Clifton County Council would not do anything in the matter, they would appeal to the Government to help them out of the mud. They thought that all the Clifton County Council wanted was their big rates, which they were called upon to pay while they bogged through the mud girth deep. The petitioners signed themselves "Yours in earnest." The chairman stated that he had been up to the road twice within the last three months. The petition was the outcome of Mr. Jennings having told them that the money was. granted; but the chairman explained that while the subsidy had been granted, the Council could not go on with the work until they knew that the money for the land would be. granted by the Advances to Settlers' Department. The clerk stated that the money had been granted provisionally, but subject to the necessary signatures being obtained. Cr. Waite said the matter was a most important one. It was decided to inform the petitioners that the Council was taking every possible step to expedite the matter.