ROAD FORMATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2104, 25 September 1885, Page 2

ROAD FORMATION.

(To the Editor,)

Sir,—Allow me through the columns of your paper, without I hope being thought officious, to offer to the Road Boards of tliis District a few observations which have been in my mind for some, time. I would venture to suggest that in this district, for Instance, there should be embodied in the contract a clause empowering the contractor to deposit metal on one, side of the road and there measured up, and that it should bo applied to the road as it may be required by a man kept constantly at work, and only iu those places where it it is actually needed to fill un ruts, and to make sound the soft places caused by the subsidenco of roots, water-courses, etc. Then the road would never be made impassible, and would be always improving, and not destroy carriages or horses' feet as under. the .present systom, The same would apply to most of the roads regularly formed in this "Valley. So much public money being expended on new roads, I trust the above suggestion may be of service, for, 1 am sorry to confess it, public money has been expended, and in a great many instances, thrown away, by neglect of thoso proper remedies so plainly seen by those who have any practical experience,.. Forsooth, the old saying " penny wise and pound foolish" would apply to a great many instances in this Yalley,

i am, etc., Seyjiqr Tanured, Clareville, 24th September, 1885.

(To tijb Editor.)

Sffi,—ln referring to the accident which occurred to a number of cattle at Ngawapurua bridge, you attribute it to " rushing" the cattle. As this statement is misleading and calculated to rellect injuriously upon the drovor in charge "Lind, who is the moat experienced driver on the West Coast," we beg to inform you that tlje accident is solely attributable to the action of some natives en route to Palmerston, who persisted in driving through the cattle while they were on the bridge, and had Lind been in front of the mob instead of one of his assistants, we are pretty sure you would have had a different case to report. ,

Your, &c„

Lowes & lorns, [We copied thg paragraph frcini an exchange, and ac]tiiowledged 'it.—Ed. W.D;]