OKAIN'S BAY ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 115, 24 August 1877, Page 2

OKAIN'S BAY ROAD BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE AKAROA MAIL. Sir, —In your issue of the 21st instant, I see that the Okain's Bay Boad Board has not sjivcn contractors for work that fair play which they think they are entitled to. Who Messrs. Everall and Gunning are your correspondent does not care, but when the shoe pinches himself he is apt to cry out. In your issue of the 17th there is a report of a mooting of this Board, which I think requires a little explanation, in the absence of the chairman perhaps David will be able and willing to do so, to the satisfaction of a neglected portion of the district. Is it right_ that Government monies for.the district should be nearly all spent in the bay in which the Chairman resides ? . The sum ■of ■ £78 2s. was voted to be spent on a cow track, to the great disadvantage of the other parts cf the district. Was the whole £78 2s. , special grant for this purpose? If why not divide it into three portions, as formerly. Did all the members vote for it ? Did the member for Le Bon's Bay so vote that he deprived his constituents of their rights ? In the report above alluded ■* to, is the W. Webb, who got paid £40 Ba. the «ame person whose name appears as sitting at the meeting of the Board ? And further, was this work tendered for, and done under the direction of the Board ? Now, David, can you answer these questions, and at the same time let the residents in Le Bon's Bay know if they are included by the Chairman in the same list as the Plains. EATEPAYEB. Le Bon's Bay, August 22, 1877.