THE ROAD BETWEEN WESTPORT AND ADDISON'S FLAT.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 837, 18 July 1871, Page 3

THE ROAD BETWEEN WESTPORT AND ADDISON'S FLAT.

{To the Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus.) Sib, —The road between Westport aad Addison's Flat is, and has been for a considerable time past, in the fullest sense of the word, in a very deplorable condition. How long it will be allowed to remain in such a state is better known to the District Engineer. If that gentleman were to take a walk along the road he would, I am sure, see the necessity of taking immediate steps to have it so far ternliorarily repaired as to permit traveling upon it, which, at the present, is attended with difficulty and inconvenience, in consequence of many portions of it being as much as two feet deep in mud. It is no unusual thing to see a pack-horse sunk up to the middle in slush trying to plunge through it. Sometimes the loading has to be taken eff and put on again where the road is not so bad —a piece of unpleasant work that has often to be repeated before the horses reach Addison's. If a portion of the large sums of money which that sleek jobber, " Geordie," was instrumental in getting advanced for, and which were foolishly frittered away upon, the half finished road between Charleston and Addison's, had been expended upon ftp, road I am complaining of, what a wen it would have been to the residents here and to every body interested •n the welfare of a thriving district. The track finust be repairedj'eventu- %, unless it will be allowed to relapse into its primitive state of wilderness, aad it is intended that we should he starved nut. The longer the delay the more money it will cost to do the work. A "stitch in time," &c. Before long it will be our duty to record a grand quagmire all the way from Addison's Flat to Westport.—l am,&c, FaITNY SwEEDLEPIPE. Addison's Flat, July 14. (To the Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus). Sir, —In a i a te issue I see that you, jwy properly, call attention to "the oad state of the road or track to the Terraces. Now had you lately travelled over the road from Westport to Addon's Flat and Shamrock Lead I presume you would have found space rora few words on it also. We, the miners, are of opinion (however erroneous) that this district is : *econd to none in the Buller as reI Pros revenue, and presume to think | ™at the authorities should provide us r "J a road which would be sate for both ™an and beast, but no; our limbs •"•no* safe should we walk, and our «T fj are in dan S el " of beiug broken ; B[ >ould we attempt to go ou horseback.

Should our tardy Government not come quickly to the rescue the writer would suggest that a few of the leading men of the Flat take it up, apply for protection, and levy a small toll. While a toll is distasteful to an already over taxed community, still safety of life and property demands something done.—Faithfully yours, New Chum Mines. Addison's Flat, July 13th.