UPPER GIBSON'S QUAY.

West Coast Times, Issue 580, 3 August 1867, Page 2

UPPER GIBSON'S QUAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WEST COAST TlStfiS.

Srrt — Rathei 1 more than two months ago 1 read with interest th.it the Municipal Council had at last resolved to enable the inhabitants of Gibson's Quay to reach their houses witkout imperilling at once their limbs and their unmentionables .by traversiug a thoroughfare which it was a mockery to call a road. The prompt commencement of the footpath aud roadway that were to achieve this object, led myself and many others to believe that the Council really intended to render to the ratepayers residing in that quarter the justice that they had long been expecting. But although a good footpath has been' formed now for over six weeks, the whole of the work hitherto done remains worse than useless from the want of the coating of gravel which Bhould cover it and render it passable. A short distance, near the Islay Hotel, has been finished, aud here either the energy of the contractor has failed him, or the supervision of the Couucil has been relaxed. In the intorval, during which the work has been sus« pended, two periods of fine weather, -which would havo greatly facilitated its completion, have been allowed to come and go. The bracing wind of the last two days has ,made the ground quite hard, and again now it is fit for gravelling, but the contractor makes no sign. Unless some steps ai'e taken to carry tho contract to its completion, I fear, Sir, that' we shall have to put up, all the winter, with communication which the expense incurred upon it hitherto has only made worse than before ; but, perhaps, it will suit the convenience of those interested to give us a heavy gravelled pathway towards tho middle of summer, when its absence woidd be a matter of indifference. When it is recollected that tho neighborhood in question contains a large number of inhabitants, and a great proportion of the rateable property of the town, that its present condition makes wet weather equivalent to a sentence of imprisonment upon the ladies who live there, and exposes to no little risk and to much certain and unnecessary discomfort those persons whose business detains them at all late in town, and who have to return there in the dark. I think the subject assumes sufficient importance to justify the ratepayers in expecting the Council to see that its intentions are promptly and efficiently carried out. Yours, <fee., Kkek-boots.