ROAD COMPENSATIONS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 199, 14 June 1878, Page 3

ROAD COMPENSATIONS.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Sib, —Already two reasonable requests have been made to the Chairman of the Akaroa and Wainui Eoad Board to make public the late transactions in the matter of road conpensation. They have been treated with contempt, why, is a mystery to me. If they will bear the light of day there can be nothing to to be ashamed of. If they will not (stand the test of public scrutiny, then the sooner the public take the matter in hand the better. There '«? can be no question in all matters of money, the public have an undoubted right to be informed as to its expenditure even to the last farthing ; indeed, when this right csases, all check to peculation or any sort of dishonesty ceases. The members of the above Board may rest assured that the feeling of something secret being- done in Board matters is not confined to the writer of this letter. I am able to state ■with authority, that the public generally are making enquiries. I have now to ask the Board to make a plain statement at

their meeting in the presence of the re-, porters, such statement to contain all the information available. Let us know who were the arbitrators, umpires, where referred to, the awards containing particulars as to amounts for fencing, for land, for severance, and the names of all persons in the slightest degree interested. Now, I ask all this, not with the intention of being fractious, but simply because it is my right, and the right of every ratepayer, to have possession of all information that the Board can give, not some weeks, or, perhaps, months afterwards, but at the earliest moment the Board may be able to supply it. Then in the name of common sense, Messrs Eoad Board Members, let there be no further delay.

Yours, &c, A RATEPAYER.