SPECIAL GRANTS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 106, 24 July 1877, Page 3

SPECIAL GRANTS.

(to the editor of thk akaroa mail.)

Sir, —By a report in Friday's Mail of the Boad Board meeting, held on the 14th, I notice that I was to be requested to inform the Board why the resolution, passed at a late meeting, held in the Town Hall, Akaroa, had not been acted, upon. I have not heard from the Road Board, but as a week has elapsed since the meeting was held, and passing over the unusual form of this resolution, I should feel obliged by your allowing me to use your columns to reply as far as is in my power. The resolution, passed at the meeting of the 21st April, was forwarded in due course to the Government, and, finding, after a lapse of Borne weeks, that no reply had been received, Q. wrote, asking for information, and received an answer, that " the matter was under consideration." I believe that the Pigeon Bay and Port Levy Road Boards, by united action, will probably obtain their grant for the road between the two districts, but I regret to see amongst us, instead of unity of action, a movement to sever a portion of the district. In my opinion this is not the remedy for neglect real or fancied, but I would ask our Board <« Jjonsider whether it is not yet possible*t&eSly the proposed division. What has already been discussed, and what is required, is a more central place of meeting, allowing of fair representation of

all parts of the district. In the late advertisement for a site for new Road Board office, a limit was placed as to locality, and that'limit embraces large properties of two members of the Board, yet I was very sorry to see by your report that no oiler ot the small piece of land required had been received. Unity is strength, and small districts mean large expenses in pro_ portion to work done. Every ratepaye" should bear in mind that the day is not fa distant when "all" the cost of roads wil r have to be borne by the ratepayers alone> and if fairly represented, the larger the district the better, because the greater efficiency and the smaller the rate. —lam, &c, E". CLATTER. Barry's Bay, July 21st, 1877.