CARTERTON ROADS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 796, 17 June 1881, Page 2

CARTERTON ROADS.

| (To the ! ri . Carterton, June 16. : Sir,—ln one of -your • vibugl issue s I noticed a paragraph calling attentipnjtpj;! q the| disgraceful state of, 'the'"roadjb.atite.en' * ' Gardener's store and FarlbTC's.'butoherg' shop, and it appears tome; thatino notice has| been Men;-'/,.1t would be interesting totnowwbo isrsupposed to see to this maf te'rV! Mr' Barlow* and Messrs Gardener. and Son have..ajready.;been, to, a.lpt.of Jexpjrose and trouble in gettingine footway''- 1 -' gravelled, m. front, of'tlien' respective preMseßr ; Thls''-appears tb%ie - good (that is if they are,ratepay era) * They pay rates and have to do-this sort of work ' themselves; ; and>if nhe'ißoard txpocts . them to gravel the piitlic * road ds Voli : as. thei footpath;T'can •only' ; say : it' ; iß!!ihe':'' iO ■ coolest thing I ever heard of.'"' :; lt'must bo detrimental' fo as fe'CpeoJ' pie j care to walk .of mud'' and; water, which mus't'be 1 at leaVt sixteen .pr.twenty feet across'.-1 nbtice'tlie Bfia'rd. 'apparently 6pend the- ■ to suit themselves, and I do not blame them as long as the ratepayers don't'mind it. ;Why should theifootpath be extended '. twenty chains or more : the south: end (over whioh an average of one a day pass), "|' andtho business part of the town be neg. iJ)L lected? The mM,I presume; is became "'' nonb of the Board have any interest in the north end. If such really is the case, their selfishness ought to be exposed.

I am, Ac,,. •Ratepayer,