Letters to the Editor. RAGLAN : ROAD OR NO ROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 603, 1 April 1876, Page 3

Letters to the Editor. RAGLAN : ROAD OR NO ROAD.

Sjr, -Since" I wrote tv you about tho — comparatively speaking — excellent track from Kaglaa to W*ip» via Ko Orangi, tUo chairmen of the Aotea and Wliuingaruru {Raglan) ftoid Boards, lie-ar* Hill and Wilson, have reported to the Superintendent that the Ko Oraugi line id impracticable, and the present lice ;» to remain the miserable apology for a road. The Waitetuiii* bridge is to be re-erected, for the fifth tiin^, on its lite tite, and I suppose the twenty bri t^es iv tlie Maungakn-ikiri Valley renewed, while tho mountain vriH remiin in ttatu quo, a* it would take many thousand poundi to make it practicable for an etnpjky cart lam not surprised to learn that tho only line in which it is practicable to take a cart round has been con - deumed unseen ; indeed I wrote to you that the .Raglan " King" is opposed to a road to Waipa. When I heard that Messrs Hill and Wilson hod been over and considered the proposed line as impracticable, I wrote to them and sugge«ted that as Mr Frissell, tho district engineer, was absent in Auckland, and Mr John Stuart expected here, that Mr Stewart ihould be requested to inspect and report upon the different lined of roads, for I consider that if I am not a better road «ngtneer tban those, the best part of whose lives have been .spent in sedentary occupation*, why I m>iy modestly say that I ousihr to be. Mr Fnasell has now returned to Raglan, find why is not his opinion taken before the road is sheltered for another decade ? The best of the dismal joke is that Messrs Hill and Wilson lodt their way, were knocked up, and have not teen the line I was over with Mr Turner. Now that 'Waikato is no longer miartpresentsd in the General Assembly by self'aeeking place hunters, but is represented by an independent man, who has seen tho so-called "road" now in use, and who possesses atf interest in seeing it replaced by a load such as other > parts of the colony enjoy, I am not without . hope th»t Mr Cox will come to the resoue.— I »m, &C, J C JoHNgTONK. Te Haroto, Haglan, March 28, 1876.