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Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 6

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Apropos the £10.000,000 gift to Britain: This works out at about £lO per head of the adult white population of New ZeaGIFT TO land. By wind BRITAIN mechanism will the

individual members of the financial, commercial, and trade union interests pay their share —or will they? The gift, from New Zealand's point of view is substantial. but against the terrific indebtedness of Britain, is a veritable “Widow’s Mite.” Puzzle: Find the widow. I would like to contribute to a prize fund for the solution of the puzzle.— G. M. RODGER.

Recently a complaint was made to the county council regarding the state of the Fuhi Puhi road. Or ■ councillor remark PUHI PUIII ed that more had ROAD been spent on the

road than came otf it in rates. It is not argued that the councillor was wrong, but it can be argued that most of the money spent has been wasted.

j There were enough representations 1 made concerning the side-road by the j Puhi Puhi school committee. A few I loads of metal were dumped here ana I there, and now a shower or two of j lain sees the road almost impassable. A bulldozer cleared the watertables !on the hill above the Native School, j but to what purpose, when the reI mainder of the hill—the worst section j —was left untouched? The road is graded occasionally and ! left in a worse condition. In many j places four-inch metal is graded on | to the road for motorists to ruin their ! tyres pushing it off again. Water j courses down or across the road, and i culverts are conspicuous by their ab- • sence. The few loads of metal resulting after the recent complaint were dumped where the storm water had scoured. Were the culverts, if any, cleared to prevent that metal being washed away also?

There is not a worse road in the county. Are we to suffer it for ever, when, for the sake of a few loads of metal to provide a decent sux-face, a few culverts opened and water tables cleared —and the grader used wisely--i we could have something that approxI imates the name of road. Why not ! surface the i'oui’-inch metal as a pre* ' liminnry?—HOPEFUL.