KAITI ROAD

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 73, 29 March 1901, Page 1

KAITI ROAD

To the Editor of the Times.

Sir, —Mr Partington should try and keop to the point, and not twist what I say. Let me try and put it more plainly. While Childers road is left in such a state as it is in winter months it would be a scandalous thing for Councillors to rush across the river to spend money before they even .know what the road will cost. I would like to see Haiti get a good road, but it is strange how ready Councillors are to spend money in that quarter when the long-suffering ratepayers about Childers road always get the reply no funds. Why, take Bright street, just close to the fireball, the heqyt of the town; in the rainy weather, the footpath is converted into a long ditch, the water being kept in the centre by the grass. A Councillor once said that those who barracked the hardest got the most—that is evidently Mr Partington’s belief. Councillors who are ready enough to take even the light ft'fiui Childers; street are willing to spend a large sum on Kaiti without their engineer being given time to tell them the cost. What I want to see is fair treatment; let Kaiti and Mr Partington have their due, but play fair with the public money. What is wanted from Childers road’ side is a representative who will occasionally perform a wild Indian dance, and threaten to scalp the other Councillors. Another correspondent refereed to the beauties of Palmerston road. I had a walk there to judge for myself, and I was lost in admiration. _ The side streets are all better "than Childers road locality. The Council has evidently been blind 6f one eye and very keemsighted of the other, And..Mr Partington knows which is the right side.—l am, etc., Ratepayer