The members of the " Akaroa County Council" have unhesitatingly, condemned the action of the conference of County Chairmen, a body which sat with closed doors, excluded the reporters, and passed cut and dried resolutions, one of which cooly proposed to absorb the County of Akaroa into that of North Canterbury. The members of the Akaroa County Council are indignant at this, yet, they have only themselves to thank for it. Instead of manfully setting their shoulders to the wheel, and bringing the Counties Act into operation in its entirety, thus exercising the noble principle of self-reliance, they adjourned from time to time, to see what the Selwyn County Council would do, and at length blindly followed its leadership, forgetful at the time, that "when the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 104, 17 July 1877, Page 2
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134Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 104, 17 July 1877, Page 2
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