GOOD PROGRESS IS BEING MADE WITH FENDALTON ROADS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 8

GOOD PROGRESS IS BEING MADE WITH FENDALTON ROADS

SUBURI SHOULD SOON LOSE DUST NUISANCF Good progress is being made with the roadint work in Fendalton, for which the atepayers in the riding sanctioned aloan some time ago. The first of tie three coatinjs of bitumen sealing on dris Road has virutally been completed,and already the abatement of the dustnuisance in this locality has earned foithe Waimairi County Council the than!? of the residents. Idris Road is te first c r the roads in the riding to L dealt with under the roading loan, and progress with the laying of the irst coat has been made at the rate-ff about twenty chains a day. Two c urther coats are to be applied at inteirals to complete the work. The next work to beundertaken will be Fendalton Road, from Rossall Street to Clyde Road, enders for this work close to-day. The paving of Burnsie Road with tar seal from the termiation of the sewer in Fendalton to the olf links has been authorised by th Highways Board, and specifications lr the work are now being drawn up preparatory to the calling of tenders. The istance to be dealt with is appro a mile. The work on Idris Road w i recently inspected by members of th County Council, who expressed themswes well pleased with it. “The council are very anxiou to see the end of the dust nuisance,” tid the chairman of the County Council Mr C. E. Cross) this morning. “The m«nbers for the riding, Messrs H. Kitso and F. Scott, have been working geticallv. It will be no fault of \eirs if Fendalton does not very soon’ose the dust nuisance for ever.” should keep up even an outward shw of friendliness. Naturally, currencies such as the* I have mentioned are confusing ar. generally unsatisfactory. One neve knows quite where one stands in th matter of values, and much wearisom* argument is entailed. So it was that at one trading station I established I decided to put a more businesslike system into practice. From a number of empty kerosene ccns I cut a quantity of discs about the size of a half crown, each of which I diestamped with an X. Thei after destroying the die, in case anyone should find it and start coining on me, I explained to the natives that the discs were coins, or token, with which 1 would pay' them for the c<pra and other goods they brought me, and with which they could puraase their needs from my store. Then Ifixed fair prices—how many discs I w>uld pav for a bag of copra, and the corresponding disc value of the goods somy store —and the scheme was stared. I felt that in thus elevating barer to the realm of commerce I was smething of a benefactor of the isles, aru was proud of myself. It was not a great succes, however, one reason being that to he natives trading was more a matter exchanging presents than it was of vuying and selling; another, that they medium of exchange which tad no intrinsic value. Trading fell o' so that I was forced to abandon ny grand scheme and revert to the ictuxesque but cumbersome methods of he past.

(Anglo-American N.S. Copright.)