KURIPUNI RAILWAY ROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 700, 23 February 1881, Page 2

KURIPUNI RAILWAY ROAD.

(To the Editor of the Daily.) _ Sik,—A question which _ materially... affects a considerable proportion of the Masterton Borough ratepayers seems tome —possibly through want of public discussion—to hardly have had as muoh attention paid to it, either by the inhabitants, or by the Borough Council as I think it deserves.

I allude to the providing access from the main road in the southern portion of the Borough to the Kuripuni Railway Station.

As things now are, the Government lias provided for the accommodation of the inhabitants of the southern portion of the Borough the Knripuni station, and we—the ratepayers in this partion of the Borough—are so supine that we render this, that might he a great convenience, absolutely valueless to the majority of us, simply by not making tho most important road that leads to it.

Certainly, at the present time, no other road work in the Borough would be of so general a benefit as this, and it behoves all those ratepayers to whom the Kuripuni station, when rendered accessible, will be the handiest (and these will be found a not inconsiderable proportion of thewhole) to insist that the Borough Council postpone this work no-longer. Possibly, you, Sir, recognising—as you cannot fail.to do—that this work has essentially superior claims for consideration to the majority of appeals upon the Borough rates, as being one of which the benefit will be very general, and, indeed, that its neglect is most discreditable to us, will direct the energies of the Borough Council towards so desirable and reproductive an object.

I am, &c., Ratepayer,

Knripuni, February 21. [As far as we can form an opinion, the construction of the road would cost a considerable sum (say £250), and that, without the settlers in the neighborhood are prepared to pay a larger proportion towards its cost than they have as yet intimated an intention of contributing, there is a poor chance of getting the Council to undertako it. If a specification and estimate of the work were prepared, and no doubt the Council would willingly agree to this, the question of ways and means could be much more readily discussed than it can be at the present stage,—Ed. W.D.]