CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10413, 6 September 1911, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE FERNRIDCE ROAD. ITo'The Editor."} Sir, — I would like to ask a few questions through your valuable paper re the Ferniridge Road'. Why is at thlalt we only get one-*hird of our rates ,sipeinit on our road, once in'five years? Why is it that when we do get a.few pounds the money is prao•tifoalily wasted in .putting on coarse, cracked metal on a hard foundation; wiitih. inotihiing !to bind it? The road mow is only fit to cripple horses, and .is worse than if it had never been touched,. Why is it that there i& am, Sfffc footjpath. made night past our . Cbuincillor'ss door, when it will noit be wanted for twenty years? 1 a.m 'led to believe tibia* the Engineer is to blame for the footpath. Who is, spending tlhe ratepayers' money, the Engineer or the ounciililors ? The Enigineer isi a Capable man, I know. He has been known to instruct the .ran* ger to impound stock off the road on a Sunday; but evidently he could not see* that the orowai< of the road, .was lower than the water-4>able. I would like to know if the ratepayers' votes are. worth a/ny<th!ing at the com&ng election of CoumriHors?— I ami, etc., RATEPAYER. Femridge, September 4th, 1911.