CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 49, 7 April 1877, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOB. Sib,— Kow that we' are getting the cattle from our highways, it would be well to -see to other matters affecting the public convenience; Those settlers who have fenced m a portion of the roadway ought to be compelled to remo^Aueir fences, as the road at its full, widv^fis quite narrow enough.At "the present time" there is half a chair of^ the road :quite' useless to the public, unless the .Council would take the matter m handand get the logs and the Btumpsclearedjaway, so as to enablepeople driving mo£s of cattle or flocks of 1 sore-footed ,she<?p to take them off the hard metal on to- the soft ground, leaving the metal portion of the road to vehicles and horsemen. If this were . done, it would have the effect of keeping down the rank vegetation heretofore cropped by wandering cattle. I, wish- to' direct your attention to another nuisance "that the settlers on the Rangitikei Line have had to putupwith all. summer. /-The; ditches have never been cleaned out since the road was made, and-as they are-full of "stagnant wa£er -and sludge, the smell during the hot weather^was^ very -bad. -IJiope our member will take this matter up, and bring" it before the -Council and have these' ditches: cleaned and deepened before the wet .weather sets ini or we may .expect to see the place flooded and have the scanty bit of metal at present on the road washed away. \ : As a member of the Road Board sees so much_danger m. cattle being allowedon the roads at night,. I wonder if he ever comes" along the Rangitikei line. . and sees big.logs andstumps.onthejroadside night^and day, and wont com pelth.e owners" to' remove them: Is'iffc "ahorse as likely to run .oven a bridge -without; a railing^ or a black log as he is pvera ; white cow ? They say " a new broom sweeps— clean;" -I hope; "tire" County Council^ will act up to the proverb, and sweepthe-rubbisl 1 away whichthe Prbvinei4l; Gdvernment left ' beli£hcL it. 1 — 1 'a,m,.&6r, "'" " ' ; '.'. -~. ' : "'.;T : : -'-'^.:''- '■ ~,/- ■■' Rangitikei Line. PalnierstonySrd Aprils 1877. ' A - ta -V