COUNSEL FOR WAITEMATA COUNCILLORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10044, 3 February 1896, Page 3

COUNSEL FOR WAITEMATA COUNCILLORS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Like most farmers, I seldom last mouth I did. I saw something where I went I hope you will let me tell to'the Waitemata County Councillors. The roads there are formed and metalled in the middle. On each side is a space unmetalled. Along that space the boys ride, and the carts are driven all through the summer. I was assured that everybody wanted to keep off the metal to get smoother travelling, bo the side-roads were used eight months out of twelve by nearly everybody, to the great saving of ratepayers' pockets. Now, in some parts of Waitemata we do differently. Folks would bo willing enough to drive on the side roads, but our surfacemen stop all that. They leave the road scrapings and gutter cleanings and the like in heaps instead of scatter* ing them in such a way as often to (juite block the sideroads. Iu numberless instances I have seen a decent sideroad stopped by this. Passengers are thus compelled to use the metalled road all the year round. So the roads wear out in some places as fast again is they otherwise would. Let our Council encourage the use of sideroads first by never obstructing them ; second, by sometimes cutting a branch overhead, or moving a hump below. By so doing they will save their metal from wear to the tune of scores of pounds.—lam, etc., Waitemata Ratepayer,