A Necessary Crossing.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6967, 25 January 1918, Page 4

A Necessary Crossing.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—The Count? Chairman i 3 taking a very com.Deniable i terest in tha setling of absentee land, and the great need of attracting new settlers to tbe district, but does it ever occur to him that there are golden opportunities for useful work awaiting him to encourage Hip settlers who are here to remain. la it any encouragement to a new settler to find hi? onlj means of acceaß is across a swamp, which Hven in the driest weather tins anything up tv a foot of water in it? That is tbe position in which myself ard another settler, find ourselves. Appeals to the Chairman to have even the most primitive of roads formed across the short piece of swamp have been in vain, and as a lust resource I desire to thus publicly draw tne Httention of county ratepayers to the fact that while time cannot be found to de*viee ways and means to provide necessary road 3 to lard already settled, much time can be devoted to hunting up absentees. —I am, etc., J. ANDERSON. Gate PB, January 24tb, 1918.