OCEAN BE ACH ROAD.
The following reply has been received from his Honor the Suppri'ntendent to the address forwarded by J. Gillies, Fsq , the Sheriff; in accordance with the resolutions of the public meeting lately held on the subject of promoting the formation of a road' to the Ocean Beach: —
" Superintendent's Office, August 9. " Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge your communication of the resolutions passed by a public meeting on the Ist inst., in legard to the formation of a road fiom Dunedin to Anderson's Hay, and for the purpose also of an ocean drive for the inhabitants of Dunedin. I beg to express my warmest concurrence in both these objects, and my readiness to promote their execution by every means in my power. "Allow me to suggest the necessity, at the outset, of a plan and specification with estimate of the cost, and which I am ready, if wished far, to call upon the engineer ami snivey departments of the Government either to furnish oi to check; and which service, I am happy to believe, could at the present time be lendoied without delay.
" I ofier this suggestion because it is upon the amount beinn ascertained that it could be heen how much of the cost wouM be uiidei taken for by the Dunedin Inhabitants' Committee, and how much by the proprietary of Anderson's Bay, in order tint the sum to be proposed to the Piovinchl Council might be within such limits as not to endanger its rejection.
" It will be observed that the sum to be proposed for main roads will, as a general rule, be propoitioned to the amount of the actually existing traffic and population ; and ,is the hole main Hue from Dunedin to the Clutha, for instance, must, in each of its parts be substantially proceeded witli, it would be well to avoid objections being tali en by any of those parts, fucli as the T.iieii or Tokomaiiiro, to a vote for Anderson's Bay that might be greatly in excess of its tiaffic and population as compared with their own. And it i a on this ground that I look so hopefully upon the movements in Dunedin and Anderson's Bay.
" I have the honour to he, &c, " W. Cahgill, Superintendent."
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Otago Witness, Issue 402, 13 August 1859, Page 3
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377OCEAN BEACH ROAD. Otago Witness, Issue 402, 13 August 1859, Page 3
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