PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3010, 22 September 1888, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From our Own Correspondent.) : 7- .THE MUNICIPALITY* Thero was a meeting last night-at which'the candidates ;for the Town ' - Board expressed their views, or more correctly speaking they all indulged in generalities and expressed no views , at all. The only serious 'question is that of the main road whioli none of them dare face, 'You seaPahiatua is like a lot of your town- ' lets, a long string of houses up and . down each side of a straight level dusty road. This road is about ten feet wide, on eaoh side is a ditch, and then thero is grass, puddles, holes, ondfinally houses. Across from house to house is three chains, or 66 yards, • or 198 feet. The.houses ought pro- , perly to beill shoved up to the road, but it was originally surveyed three chains wide and therefore it remains flkf so. It is most ridiculous to .call it ■ a road, but what are wo to do ? I anug ; certain any city surveyor of will agree with me that the first • action of the Town Board ought to" have been to settle this matter; If no other means could have been : found, a private Bill should have been drafted, reducing the road .to a reasonable width and conveying the surplus • in trust to a commission, to be given over to holders of sections fronting the road. The commission would . have had'to see that eaoh section- : ■ holder accepted the piece given him' ; in an equitable manner; that is, in- ; eluding it in his mortgage if one existed, or in the loaso if he had leased his section; and then in a short time there would have been an end of all the trouble. Thero would havo beensomo slight, individual 'hardship, but nothing compared: to what it is now. Instead of doing this, our Town Board made footpaths at each side of the road, Therefore, now on each side wo have first houses, then a footpath, then a wide : piece of puddle, ditch, grass, stone!,'heaps, gravel pits, etc; finally in tl&' middle a metalled road about feet wide.. Its very regretable. If the space on each side of the road could be levelled, regrassed, ' and planted with shade trees it would look nice on paper, but the thing is quite impracticable. The trees would not jpow, the grass would be cut up by traffic and worn into dusty holes; j. and besides that tho expense "would be prohibitive. •

| OUR FCIUKE RULEBB, ' Since writing the above tlio members of the Town Board have been elected, They are Messrs Briggs, ' Growo, JlcCardle, Naylor, Reese, Sedcole anil Stewart, Of all ibeso MrCrewo polled least votes, wbilo j V his chief supporters, Messrs Burrows- V ■■■* and Wakoman, failed to'seoure Beats. { .■ at all, It'is as a.terrible J upset for the Crewe iactioih—os the J . names abovo perhaps Mr Sedcole's iW the most satisfactory, as he has clerk tb' the Board since tlie uingi and consequently really know!* all about it,