NORTHCOTE ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1902, Page 2

NORTHCOTE ROADS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—The Northcote roads are in * most scandalous and positively daiy gerous state, and getting worse with every change of weather. What h. as been done to the Northcote roads duiing^the last five or six years night'as well been left undone; the cost has been frittered away by a special way of how not to make them fairly good highways. What should bo the crowns of the roads are. slujljre ',' channels, storm water and sludge cross and recross the roadway.--What was intended for water channels are filled with sand shells and scoria ah^ road metal. In fact, the proper.watec channels are obliterated, and in many places the roadway has become so narrow that two vehicles cannot passeach other at the same part of tW road. Here is one of the most healthy places in this colony, a really pretty and attractive suburb of our greatest city and most important shipping port, a seaside suburb, that should bei one' of th^ most go-ahead places.near Auckland, but the condition of oW roads is" the obstacle that blocks the progress of Northcote. A,ride on the Lake Ho ad is a caution to anyone with nerves.—l am. etc.. > ;"

ANOTHER RESIDENT.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —I beg by your kindness to call// the attention of the Waitemata Covm-' ty Council to the dreadful state of tKfe Northcote-Takapuna Road between' Mackay's Bush and Burningham's Pit.v It is so bad since the wet weather that om goes over the shoes in mud. Every other part of the road is metalV led, and one can get along fairly, clean; this section is not metalled, and, being narrow, is cut upbythel traffic into soft mud. One is obliged, to go tnrough it, for furze and other difficulties on either hand force onft into the cartroad., I am sure the County Council don't know how .bad it is. Th<jy come round to inspect pnly in f.ne weather, when it is passable. I wish they would just take a'; walk along it after a spell of wet, as. I have to do constantly.—l am, etc., I

A SUFFERER.