BLOCKAGE OF ROADS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 12

BLOCKAGE OF ROADS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In reading in your local columns I see that the New Plymouth Borough , Council has permitted or authorised Inspector R. Day to erect gates in suitable positions at the camp site and to erect notices. The gates are to be kept locked, and opened only by the caretaker. Why is this done? Who keeps it? Was it not fixed up witih public money?; and why erect gates ? I say, let it be open. The esplanade runs right along the foreshore, and what authority has anyone to block a public highway ? ■ None, -and I think it is going too far. If there are any returns, who gets them? The caretaker, or a limited liability’ company, running in the dark ? We praise our waterfront, and what has happened? Right practically on the road is an oil derrick, which I say is not right. According to the Act, it should not be there. Who cares? Nobody, only those living in the vicinity. New Plymouth, with its local bodies, seems to have more privileges than anywhere else the way things go on, and by and bye we will be confronted and asked to pay to go on the public beach on New Year’s Day. No, that game will not do, for I, for one, , will take particular notice that day and give liberty to everyone, for it has gone on long enough; and also there are our wharves and (breakwater quite close together, and to get to them is a very awkward job.—l am, etc., RATEPAYER.