THE PROBLEM OF THE HOADS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3555, 21 June 1912, Page 2

THE PROBLEM OF THE HOADS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —You are deserving of great praise for pointing out the need for an active Works Committee in connection with the Borough Council. Disappointment is not the word to express tlie feelings of the residents over the present state of the roads. Here we are in the middle cf the year and the roads are smiplv covered with mud. What would it have been like if vc had had a really bad winter? As it is the present winter is the very best we have had for many years. If any of the councillors are satisfied with the rate of progress that lias been made in regard to the improvement of the roads and footpaths they are very easily satisfied. How much money is left for the roads I do not know"; but everybody seems to have awakened to the fact that a very great deal has been spent. And what is the position? That now, at this late stage, we hear that experiments are to be made to ascertain the best- way of making the streetsIt is simply monstrous. If Mr Pettie is wise lie will have a return, prepared as to the amount of rend work done, where it has been done., and what it has ocst. Then it will be for him to show that during his term of office affairs have been conducted according to the motto which he gave out some time back, viz., progress with economy.—Yours, etc., A FORMER SUPPORTER. Gisborne, June 20.