CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

o A DISGRACE TO THE COUNTRY." (To the Editor). Sir,-I am taking the liberty of penning you a few lines, and trusting that you may publish same in your columns. I should have done so before only I expected some abler pen than mine would have taken the matter up before this. I refer to the shocking state of the Opaki road — quite a disgrace to any county—a veritable river-bed. I would like to know if the responsible men have gone to sleep, or if we want a change —probably the latter. Then we may get a stone-crusher to break up the boulders, and not leave them strewn all over the road, awaiting the only t-olitary timber waggons that passes over them two or three days a week to do the work of a crusher. These boulders cost money to place them on the road, and it will now cost a little more to collect them again. All this is rate mo ey cr private money given to keep the road in repair, and pounds of money arc thrown away, lying loose on the side of the road. The above few lines touches the Upper Opaki road, and still nobody finds fault—quite satisfied to shy off the road and give the boulders sole possession of the whole road. I tme now already shook three boxes out of my ' wheels', and lost no end of time in removing stones from my horses' feet. The most sceptical can be convinced ot these facts by taking a motor-car or any other vehicle over the same •route. Trusting that we may get the stones made a little smaller before some accident occurs. —I am, etc., HY. PRESTON. Lansdowne, 17th May, 1908.