BUSH ROADS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4177, 28 July 1892, Page 2

BUSH ROADS.

A fair indication oi the troubles that settlers who take up land before proper roads are made have to endure, may be gleaned from the following, taken from the Advocate :-A dismal tale is brought from Obingaiti by one who has just lately returned. The weather for weeks past has been so bad as to render it next to an impossibility for the men engaged at bushfelling to do any work at all, But although work cannot be done,- the necessaries of life have to be partaken of, and these are necessarily at a very high price. A goodly number of the "co-operative" men have given the work best and cleared out, leaving the storekeeper lamenting, Whatever wages it might be possible to make in good weather or during the dry season, it is very evident that it is almost impossible to make even enough 'to ' cover expense's at the present time,' A good few accidents have lately in' one form'and another, and with more or' less severity.' On Saturday a man named George Smith was brought into Peter : kin's store, having had his foot very badly gashed in the instep with an axel' Mr Smfth is' well-knopn in Bulls and Lower Bangitikei, It in an impossibility to take a dray or vebiple pf any Ifi'pdtpghipgaiti from Hunter? ville, the rpad being in such a tprrjble state. Given a much longer sketch pf Wee weather, and even papkrhqrse traffic would baye fa bp suspended, and Obingaiti would be cut off from the outside world -not a very pleasant Btate of things to hold in prospect fori the inhabitants of a bush township.