SAVAGE-ROAD

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1437, 22 September 1905, Page 3

SAVAGE-ROAD

I v ' TO THB EDITOR " SißQln times of revival such as wo MB hav* in Wftihi (according to the parsons) I, «j%rpll as "Savage," think ihat the aboTe toad should have a speedy conversion, so that residents on, Of adjoiiiug, . Savage Boad, after attondiog iheso meet- . ings may get safely home without turning backsliders, as I fear one poor individual (did to-night. He (for it was a inao) was on his way rejoicing, iorgefting all things eortbly, oven to the repairs on hie own road, that the Borough workmen are at presoni doing, whan, lo 1 a piece of 1 ti-tree tripped him up and ho lauded in & place which must hayo brought him in L' mind of" The Slough of' Despond" whioh Ife; the''Pilgrim " struggled through on his Br way to Heaven, Ir lam grieved to inform you that he did Ifc;, not take it like tho "Pilgrim," although E/? he opened out, like unto whitlhoydo in • the mine whon a pass is huug up, only >;!; worse. Of course ne had my sympathy, h; but no help, although bo got out fill the (i samo, and the worst 1 could wish tho Rev, ii • James Wilson would have been to have • met that man then. There is ono gentloi man that I do wish had come along, and that is the Borough Enginoer. Of course that gentleman is too busy to come along At any time, far less after dark/ The assistant engineer, too, must, I supposo, be excused; porhapsbe is assisting his chief, whioh is proper, of course, k There is no foreman of works, and I think the Borough Council ought to appoiut onoj besides one or two more officials with brain), for it is not reasonable to oxpeol it i ganger receiving 8s 6d a day to hitvo brains, I think all gangers should be examined re their brain power beforo being appointod Co such responsible billets, and their qualificaiions Bhoiild bo more than having served twelve months or so oil a County, :L think all Borough officials > ' should be climatized, for even tho smartest ' of engineers, I'm told, have lo visit the i place where the work is being done, r • " Savage" says the road was to be graded and metalled somo time ago, but he must (have lost ail record of time, for over two jeers ago Savage and Morton Roads were to be graded and metalled (although I did not understand it was to bo with ti-tree) before winter. I bog" Savage's" pardon it is'" some time ago"; also tho Borough '■< Council's pardon, fori did not know it .■ vvas the winter of two years henco when this work was pasted, This must havo been done in committee, like everything ■' elso undertaken by tho Council. How much will the wages of, say, fivo or six men, besides a couple of drays, runup 10. in two or three weeks? Mr Editor, that ' wil,i be about the present expenditure on this road, and, let me add, the state of this road now is wotsfl tbau at first,-4 otc-i Dave Robertson Bnlltown Weft, September 20,1906