FOXTON LINE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 8

FOXTON LINE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —On Saturday last, the 24th inst., I had the “pleasure” of traversing over a goodly distance of the Sanson-Eoxton Bine. I had heard numerous complaints—written and otherwise —of the state of this road. My experience determined me to ajld my quota of protest, but since Saturday morning 1 have had another experience, which pales my previous one into insignificance. On Saturday night I took my wife and kiddies from Foxton into Palmerston North city to hold converse with that delightful old gentleman, Father Christmas. From Foxton to Himatangi the road was simply superb —a real credit to its maker, but from Himatangi to ltangiotu the road is a positive nightmare. I travel . between ten and twelve thousand miles a year, and I can honestly say that 1 have never struck during the last two years a main road in such a state of disrepair. It is eight miles of corrugated agony. I drove over it on Saturday night after a good drop of rain had fallen; the result was too dreadful to describe. The sides of the road have been “banked” to keep £he loose shingle from being gradually scattered into the adjoining paddocks; the result on Saturday was the sides of the road weie a long series of muddy water ‘which served the purpose of a shower bath every time oncoming traffic was encountered. The pot-holes were a succession of miniature shingle pits. ' You can guess I was very pleased when I arrived “home” safe and sound. Being interested in prize fighting I had arranged to go to the Oxley--Hughes fight on Monday night, but I decided no fight in New Zealand was worth travelling over the road in question, so I stayed at home. I will never travel over that road again, if I know it. Why those who use this road don’t voice a most emphatic protest I don’t know. It is a main highway and is practically the only way of getting to Palmerston North from here. As there is now no train service between Palmerston North and Foxton, the travelling public have simply got to grin and bear it. I consider this road a positive hindrance to business in Palmerston North city. No one would ever think of travelling over such a road for fun. —I am. etc., SUFFERER. Foxton, December 28, 1932.