SWITZERS ROAD.
(To the Editor.)
Sib, — I wish you would be so kind as, through the columns of your paper, call the attention of the " powers that be " to the state of the road between Rae's junction, and Switzers. There is a miserable pittance voted by the Provincial Council every year for the repair of this road, and even if half the sum voted is expended upon the road, the men who do little more than walk over it annually, must have very high wages indeed. The Switzers coach passes over this road during the summer weather, four times a week, and how the driver pilots his coach through the deep ruts without capsizing, is more than I can understand. Besides the ruts, he has any amount of loose stones to contend with lying all along the road, which makes coaching unpleasant if not dangerous. These stones the surfacemen could easily put to one side, but, I suppose, this is too much to expect of the gentlemen we are once a year favored with a visit from. I wonder if the Government think it does a road any good to vote money yearly for its repair, if that money is not judiciously expended upon it. — I am &c-, Onlooker.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 5 December 1874, Page 3
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209SWITZERS ROAD. Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 5 December 1874, Page 3
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