BELL'S ROAD AGAIN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 296, 20 May 1879, Page 2

BELL'S ROAD AGAIN.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail. I |

Sir,—-When, reading the first part of "Inquirer" and' Enquirer's" letter, I really thought the public were to be treated with the Eleusis, especially after, perusing such an assumed flow of humor in 'the preface, interspersed with.Latin phrases and. quotations from our riationial W. 'S., one is prepared for something good ; but upon looking a little further,-1 find your correspondent is not the Hierophant,.said .there_ fore I i eel disgusted, with his subterfuge of the Government Auditor, and come out and fight in the open. " ; Now, Sir, I ask a public »q_estio_i, and it ought to be fairly answered, arid that is, where is the value received for the £80 paid out of: the. Road Board chest?; .Iff

matters little whether the Government Auditor, passed the "accounts or not, as it does not exonerate the late Chairman from the liability through his indiscreet* action. If it did, I feel the country would be over-ridden with J theise \ hast£ jgivers away of money, /and ,'I am" quite certain when the audit was. passed it was under the faith that nothing appeared in the Road Board books that the public had riof; received value for. But facts speak for themselves. The Road : Board have nothing to show for the £80 - that was paid, as I before Btated to a supposedl attorney, who is merely ah agents and who will, I have no doubt, receive any number of £80's for the same account, if tendered. I haye also heard of shifting ground to account for this money, i.e., from through Mr Inman's to through Mr Bell's; but this won't do, Mr Bell having bffered a road free of cost through his property, if the Road Board would pay £80 to get it through Mr Inman's. I must therefore ask the "One Who Has Enquired Into," to.make a further research before he takes upon himself the post of mentor, but perhaps he is interested, and consequently is not fit to judge. But so fair as coming, out <o_ my nomde what— ■ Sir, that's all twaddle. If I did, I am a marked man, especially wheri the writer. vouches for the late Chairman, and also for the present Road Board, unleßß I make my enquiries through that august bodywith due humility, and then perhap- I may obtain a patierit hearing.—Yours, &c., '•.." - -..v-...■•.:: ■;.' ENQUDEWB- r