HEATHCOTE RIVER ROAD.
TO THE BBITOB OF THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Bib, —In the discussion in committee on the Heathcote River road, Mr Joynt stated he considered it would be a had precedent to open up a road for the benefit of a few persons. Residing in the neighbourhood, I am able to say that there is already a great traffic between Opawa and Woolston, and in the absence of a properly defined or available road, it has been customary for each person to mark out his own track over the intervening ground, in defiance of fences, and without consideration of the injury done to the crops of the proprietors. By establishing a railway station at Opawa our Government created this traffic, and it is but fair and just the Government should provide for it by opening up an accommodation road that has been laid off on the map only years ago, as I am told, before the railway was in existence or even thought of. Besides, the fact of the petition being so numerously signed ought to be a proof that it is not merely for the benefit of a few individuals. Your obedient servant, NEW CHUM. June 11.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3863, 12 June 1873, Page 4
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199HEATHCOTE RIVER ROAD. Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3863, 12 June 1873, Page 4
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