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Down the drain

Staff Contributors

I WISH to concur with Malcom Kuchel (The Bunyip, April 5) regarding the woeful state of the drainage system on Main North Rd, Willaston.

Even the Romans in 312BC had proper roads and drainage systems.

The system in Gawler, so primitive.

D Bowkett, Freeling

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