HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.
Before the Highway District of Ponsonby was ■incorporated in the Municipality, it had a history. It had its petty squabbles and election struggles, and, like the bucket of worms, some of the people got to the top. But in those struggles the highways and byways suffered. For instance, there is one thoroughfare called Ireland-street. If. is like Ireland itself — misgoverned, going to ydecay and desolation. We happened in search of a landlord to stroll into Ireland-street, and found a deeply-rutted, clay road, like an old buljock-track, where the wintry winds had swept ; and the rains had worn away the surface soil, leaving the ground bare and ugly. Any woman or child walking along that. street in the. dark would be. indanger of a .broken leg, or some other hurt by a rail. In short, the place i» a dirgrac* to the defunct Highway Board and th« Co»por»-
--tion. All that side of the city was originally kauri forest, which perished by fire, and was succeeded by ti-tree. This, in turn, was cleared off by the march of civilisation, leaving only the clay.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 163, 3 November 1883, Page 3
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