CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE • Al'iPL KBY^IiVPUiV; ROiD

(to the Editor of "The Colonist.'")

Sir, —In reply to: Mr ' Hudson's of the 24th inst., I'note that he remarks that ■my previous letter was a "bit beyond" Tiim 3 but;, it would not have been so. had he been familial* with the conduct of its allairs by the local governing body. In overy instance tip to the present, whether on purely district or. on through roads,, those \\;ho. subdivided their lands -for- sal© .have formed this roads at their own''cost, and in the present case, the owners, men of good standing, knew • the■; la.w; when they en-, ■tered. iuto.dio simulation, and,l,, may hot question .their.-financial ability,-to nieet^thcir cJ»]jiratiohs of, say, -£1000,; '\vh-i6U-'th'-6:V«-adiHs entailed. Now I anY :itbt\'£^>itig'rto'jdUo'W,^tJiis>di'SCUfisioil::pf.';''a*; specific. case..'to,;be- side-tracked by af d''ssertri'tic-n cv,,; supposititious ones'. }\ rc are dealing. Svi'tii the Appleby-Mapua road, and the. Waimca. Council foeinp; aware of tlie fact'that ample provision \\<i^ made b\ l<nv for dealing \u'l!i it-v-tionoly resenled tbo Goremment'& action ir nsmp; ihe public money to dischai"p pin ate liabilities, and hivl'ior j)U \ntnallv compelling the settlers on I hose- lands to piv for 3iot less i\v\n hill the cost ot tii e sravellijm. „it is lin the po^er A the Go-\ernment to do jwlnt thov hhc m regard to this load, itnd authori.e the issuing of titles to the various sections. The usiial pior»dmo> hp';<M<.i, js for-1 the Council to. si«>n, the plans afier. thp roadinc; bas been done to its' 'Satisfaction,''*^non Tiii'oV inav th';n bo issaej, but'l boli<s\c I am v.3wanted m saving that in 'the present in^rance the Council w;ould prefer that thy* Government should itselt assume tbp enure iespojisibilitv oi the tiansji^t'on. I am, oic . HOJiATTO EVERETT, Chairman, Waimea County Council. Riwalta, Januarj' 26th,