SUMNER ROADS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 11

SUMNER ROADS.

TO rax EDITOR 01 THB PBESSSir, —I can confirm everything that your correspondent, "Early Lettuce," says in reference to the Upper Clifton road. On more than one occasion this winter we have had to leave our car parked tor the night not far from the main Zigzag, and wade home througti the rest of the road. Yet I understand that more than seventy pounds is collected in rates each year from one terrace alone up here, whose residents are still without water, drainage, or gas. The property from which I write pays well over twenty pounds each year in rates, and we are denied the right of driving home these winter evenings Just nineteen years we have been waiting for a road that will enable four rubber wheels to grip. We are still waiting, the rates have just been levied again, and ours show a considerable increase—what for? Is this fair, Mr Editor? And, if other Sumner roads are in anything like the same state, is it any reason that there is so much opposition to fancy schemes involving the acceptance by the borough of white eleohants in the way of baths and the like? Let the fair equivnlent of our rates come to our view first.—Yours, etc., MOTORIST. August sth, 1929.