CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2625, 16 June 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

ALFRED TON," (To the Editor.) Sir.—Seeing that the last ill- " powerful Masterton Road Board has had a poke at hvq about the deviation of the road through my land, I wish . to say that the fault ia not of my. making, as I happened to be when the road was laid off; should not have made any ' had it remained there, and was unaware that it was altered again. The Warden says the road completed before I made any complaints* and I say the road is not formed yei but there is a loan -being raised to form it. There is a 'Surface drain a •part of the way which would'' cost about Is 0d a chain, The offshoot 1 ''' ' Board cannot,he blamed, but:.-.they can alter it; I ' the same as they voted the £6O to rectify' a- for one ratepayer because a gtade.® too ■ ' steep for his,bullook team to geV up,-; Then again if the; Alfredtoa Rotcd Board can afford to spend £saon . the County roads for metalling, surely they have funds to spend on tho roaug •; fhwo.. thorates: vtf wl*

Jected'vrithout'lifiviiig to rftiso more Joans. Regarding "'time and change lias done a good , turn for mo," I ■: should- like to know in what way. Is it on account of > the gates being left open and smashed by non-ratopayers, who use tho roads to fetch their wool . this way ? Is it because ray sheep are'. being continually, hunted'off the. • level ground, o>" going out. of gates;' ieft openj and. other sheep coining in ? Fences are no good if this kind of thing is continued, Barring the .members .of the Road Board, I have all the ratepayers names on the petition, in this intended ward, to have something done in this matter. No doubt some of-the members would like-to crush me, as.it means about £7O out of my pocket to .fence tho road and make myself secure. If this was done it would leave a strip of about 40 chains long by. 4 chains wide which would be a network of roads to enable settlers to reach the buck sections. As the Government is about to cut up all the remaining township, the old road will 1)6 used in spite of what ail the members of the Board do. If ti was to he shifted it would bo a loss to ono of the members of the Board as it would bo thrown open to the public but as it is now, one gets one half of it to graze upon, and the last Chairman gets the other half free of expense. If a new settler came into tho district they would try and help to ruin him, If a speculator came along his ""mind was poisoned by the placo being run down.by them, and having this and that pointed out as drawbacks they would have to encounter. If they thought a new comer was a struggler they would try and frighten him, by bouncing him into fencing. But these individuals have improved their own place so much that there is not so .much as. one post on tho boundary yet, and this is what they claim their homo. But as the place is getting civilised slowly and surely, things may perhaps take a chango. I am, etc.,