HARD UP.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 349, 21 November 1879, Page 2

HARD UP.

To the EcHtor of the Alcaroa Mail.

Sir, — Poverty is no disgrace, but a great inconvenience, and I have no doubt the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board find it so (I mean inconvenient), especially when the Bank refuses them an overdraft. But these gentlemen, ever fertile in emergency, are not to be baulked by one rebuil:, but look around them, and, upon the principle of first done help the other, delegated to an old member of their Board the arduous

I task of borrowing only £1000 from the ' Little River Road Board. Now, Sir, surely tho members of the Wainui.Board very ignorant of their'business td expect a Bank to advance without reasonable,security, and still more so to ask another Road Board to loan £1000, when they have not one iota of available assets to offer to secure the re-

'payment. But this is not the worst feature. These members have no right to' pledge in antiripation of .any moneys in perspective; it would be a gross injustice to their successors to entail a liability upon them to cover present reckless expenditure. In conclusion, Sjr, Lhope ,the ratepayers will their own'interests 3at.the>'' forthcoinirig election, arid return men of business habits.

Yours,-&c,

RATEPAYER