THAT NEW ROAD AT OHOPE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 286, 24 March 1941, Page 4

THAT NEW ROAD AT OHOPE

Sir,—Mr Leonard Sisam strikes a sensible note.. He Avrites splendidly about our war danger and repeats Lord Churchill's warning "there are critical times aljead." He appeals to the County Council and to us all to bother their brains -wholly and solely to win the war. I think we'll just about do it if we put our all —brains, energy and money—into the titanic struggle. Mr Sisam says "that matters of less importance should properly be postponed until this crisis has been surmounted." And Leonard is right—so say all of us. % *"~ Yours etc., RATEEAYER. Sir,—ln the various arguments nbout the • roading scheme 1 to 58,. there is one aspect that has not been touched upon and as usual you have to come back to mother for a little common sense. During the summer months there are hundreds of little children crossing and re-crossing that little piece of thoroughfare between the manyhouses and camps to the beach.. What a Avorried time we women are going to have if there is speeding unrestricted there for motor cars and cycles. Already there have been many complaints about motorists speeding on the beach and after all, is not that for which we go to tho beach to get away from hustle, bustle and worry go and where children can enjoy unrestricted play.

The present road is good enough for any beach resort. And beyond getting to the spots where we camp the less motor traffic the better. A tar-sealed road would be a death trap for children and it is this sort of thing we are now free from nt Ohope. Also what sense would there be in doing anything to damage those beautiful grounds at the end of the beach. I doubt if the council could get men to undertake such a work of destruction. As a mother I would lilce to thank the owner of those grounds for his generous "treatment 01 our children and in conclusion I can assure him that if the women and children have any say those gardens would remain intact. Yours etc., A MOTHER. Sir, —So" Mr Canning condescends to write. His letter was most unsatisfactory. He does not explain why he and Mr Sullivan made misstatements to the County Council. He does not even say they were a slip of the tongue. However, I trust to the councillors —they are birds too old to be 1 caught with chaff. -

Mr Canning is gloriously vain he signs President Progress League. The sooner that Progress League is obliviated the better, tl has been nothing short of a source of trouble and turmoil to Ohope from the day it was born. Yours etc., "OHOPE."