THE LYELL ROAD.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1120, 23 August 1882, Page 2

THE LYELL ROAD.

[To the Editor li-Angahua Times.] Sir, —Allow me through the medium of your paper to call attention to the very bad $_ite of the road from the Hope Junction to within 7 or 8 miles of the Lyell. I think all who have travelled that road by the mail coach will agree with me in admiring Mr Newmans teams, and the way he drives them, and but for his skill and care the passengers would have a very poor time of it. On Thursday last, at Green's Plat, the coach got stuck fast up to the axle, and the passengers had to lift it out of the mud, and a cart was three times stuck on the same piece of road that day. As gravel is easily obtained there surely a few loads might be put on this part of the road. "Spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar " is illustrated in this case, for evidently large sums of money have been expended in forming a road which, for want of a few pounds in repairs, is almost impassable. Trusting the road inspector will soon travel that way by coach. —l am, &c, Traveller. Heefton, August 21st, 1882. [The road complained of is in the Buller County, and the roads in charge of its Council are not celebrated for the good repair in which they are kept. Perhaps our correspondent's letter may stir them up to that portion.- —Ed. I.T.]