KURIPUNI RAILWAY STATION ROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 719, 17 March 1881, Page 3

KURIPUNI RAILWAY STATION ROAD.

— —•■ [To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily.] Kuripuni, March 15,1881. ' Sffir-Witli the object of arriving at Something like a correct view of the dettand by the Kuripuni ratepayers of the ... ..Borough Council to open the stationroad, . will you allow me to make a few comments on your article of yesterday ? Tom statement that "the dwellers at y Kunpuni consider that their applications '' to the Borough Council for the construe.won of the road to the railway station has not received the attention to which it is • ■■■ U perfectly correct, an(Hfiat their view is the true one, is, in my opinion, amply supported by facts, and I venture to thick that your judg. ment "that the Borough Council has • shewn rattier an anxiety to meet as far as it can the wishes of Kuripuni in the matter of this rend," must, on a full view of the case be directly reversed. _. _ The Kuripuni residents have seen—since the station site at Kuripuni was •" determined., upon, now moro than two years ago-no attempt at all made by the . Borough Council to do anything to this, the principal road to the station; whilst ; , they have seen, during this period, the Borough funds readily spent on roads of . considerably less general importance. ' Your reason for considering it not to be ' urgently required—viz.; that most of the 1 settlers here could go roimd by the termi- ' ■ ;.' nal station—involving an addition to their ■ ; travelling of about three miles—if a valid •':. one, and applicnble to any other than un- ■; fortunate Kuripuni residents, would show J ~ that nine-tenths of the Borough roads are j ;>,. Useless. i

£ Your description of tlie station site as I being inaccessible, is what one would oxi':' pecj. from an advocate for the opponents \ > to this claim, but the fact is, it is no more : inaccessible than any other place in a :f bush country beforo roads are made, and, ■ moreover, with the terminal station where ';: it is.isvery reasonably placed, at tho ■ : jnnotion of three roads, and not too near ; the terminal station. Your suggestion, of what would have been a belter site, is not now a practical ■ .question, the railway authoritfes have constructed the railway as it is, we can- . -pot alter it, hut should make the best use we can of it, With regard to the question of dividing the Borough into Wards, I should deprecate .any change before having to the utmost attempted to make the existing •/, machinery "effect its purposes, but should 'it be found impossible to get the expenditure of the Borough funds fairly apporfined under the existing organisation, we BUBt certainly attempt to improve it. lam, &o„ 'Ratepayer,