THE FOOTPATH.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2335, 10 September 1877, Page 2

THE FOOTPATH.

To the Editor of the Star),

Sir,— Concerning the. Mechanics' Bay footpath proiect—There (.has been, since my notice in tha Star, something considerable said about it, and there has been concurrence. It seems to be a reckoned-up general geed, in and for the whole district, viz,, the raised solid footpath as before pointed out and described, from Swan Inn railway arch to the wharf. More requires to be said on it. When the cart road was designed there was a kind or soit of a small tea-pot tempest as to its propor or permitted terminus at east end ; every body owning brains pointed out Stanley-street as the proper junction, shaving, not scattering, the windows of Swan Inn. But some little men, strangers, owning some tiny three-farthing shanties, ten or fifteen fathoms further on, and jealous for the higk honour of our glorous old Codstitution Hill, sung out and shouted "iN!o; or otherwise w« demand solid cash compensation." Now, Sir, to make a long story short, the grand authorities succumbed, concßded, yielded; the horse road was not brought to its natural and unquestionably proper terminus, flush with Stanley-street. But, instead of that, it was brought close to the foot of Constitution Hili, out of the way entirely of all the world and his wife, That was and is the horse road mark you. Private interest should ever yield and be subordinate to the public good. But the new present proposition is different—a foot-path, mainly alongside the railway, and it is to educe good from ill. Furthermore, I think it likely that the Parnell Board and the Parnell Sash Mill Company, will each volunteer a free donation of a twentieth of the total cost of tha work, i.e., a combined one total tenth of the whole financial damage, on the one special condition, that the necessary work be commenced now, without loss of a week. The new way altogether is a first-rate cutting, and should cer ainiy not be by anf means detracted from as is feared. The preposed pathway would obviate the ill, as well as avoid the hill, and be, moreover, an additional good. I am, etc.,—W. E. Sadlek.