All about that Road.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 348, 7 September 1889, Page 3

All about that Road.

CORRECTION TO ANTI-CANT. [to the editor,] Sib, —Mr Spurdie’s application to fence off Hall street was refused by the Whataupoko Board on my statement “that the outlet drain and shoot would be damaged if cattle Were kept on the part of the street proposed to be fenced by Mr Spurdie.”—l am, &c., J. Warber.

EH, MONi [to the editor,] —The approach of the Borough elecC Hon, and the letters I have read in regard to f “ that road,” have caused me to remember B few facts which probably moat people have pretty well forgotten. Once upon a time, Bi the nursery books say, there was a Conn oillor whose real for the public good passed ail human understanding. Qne unfortunate Ratepayer had a hou c e which, being built in the early days when surveyors were not about an inch or so of land, ♦nanaged to have a 4in. by 4in. verandah post which abutted on to the road, not taking up as much room as a decent sparrow would like to rest upon. But does history repeat itself ? That eame zealous advocate has now B road all to his own cheek * Let us have another historical record. A ratepayer planted a tree whioh developed into a thing Of beauty, but was not to be a ioy for ever. Une day the Council determined to plant" a pulyerfr pear th? ratepayer’s property, and tne trees roots were found to extend to where thf swampy laud had been. The ratepayer gave the Overseer permission to do as hejiksd with the tree, the trunk cf wbicn he . dare not otherwise touch. Twenty minutes’ work was more than settls tbs and the annexation df the tree would have more than paid *or work which in any case it was the Borough’s plape to do. But would you peheve jk, the- Councillor who I need not name wasted, in coal gas. more than the tree would have cost, in “ *tr< tying ” about the mafter. Now ha pn#ea- a? the occupier of a road for himself 1 These be thy gadg, O Israel I Do tell us, Mr Editor, waeiner things are jj'pat tjity reefcj.—l am, Esquibbb, HE GOT PERMISSION I [to tee editor. | Bib,— Your footnote to my last letter just reminded me of a point I want to get at. You say that Mr Joyce pct permission to nee the road, I do not say that the Board were not right in refuairg Mr fipurdk’a requaat, but I would iise to know why fish is made of rne and fl-th of another? If Mr Spurdie bad been an kgnator instead of a steady, working man, he too might have been given permission. The fact remains that the man who is the more b ; ghly “ blessed ” wi'h worldly goods has got. what was subs< quently refused to another per•on. If a poor man asked for the use of nloeed in road so that he might plant a crop of Mpuds in is. he would be told that would not. b» allowed, but a member of the Bdard is allowed to block up the road,—l am 4tu , Anti-Cant. . [Enough publicity has been allowed for the ventilation of this matter, and the •orrMpptidenue un st now ccaA.< except reply to make to the points have bwu raisad.—