TAKAPUNA ROADS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 163, 10 July 1907, Page 8

TAKAPUNA ROADS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —We have had a succession of gentlemen to represent this riding on the County Council; gentlemen who drive iv their carriage, or hire a cab, or even fly along in a motor-car sometimes; but who never by any chance walk. A slight resemblance may be detected between these gentlemen and the ostrich. That bird hides its head in tne sand, aud believes its body to be unseen. These gentlemen believe the roads to be in perfect order if the part they drive over is smooth. What the back roads are •like they neither know nor care; nor the places that carriageless folk have to walk through. Mr. Poor Man asks to have his Toad done up, as his' milk cart sinks in up to the axles, and his horse is going grey with the struggle; the reply is, "No funds." But another man can have a blind road metalled and footpathed that leads only to one house, because the gentlemen drive that way sometimes, and felt the need of it. I have been moved to write in this way because only to-night 1 have gone in mud over my boot-tops right in front of the bakery, in the very centre of the township. The gentlemen who rule our roads don't know there is any mud there, I expect. .1 hope, Sir, that next time there is an election, somebody will get in who does not own a carriage, but walks; somebody who will see to Mr. Poor Man's road, instead of sticking up name plates on street corners where nobody lives.—l am, etc., MR. POOR MAN'S COUSIN.