BALGUERIE ROAD EXTENSION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 361, 6 January 1880, Page 2

BALGUERIE ROAD EXTENSION.

<> To the Editor of the Alcaroa Mail. Sia,—Should you consider the following letter, which I addressed to the Chairman of the County Council, and was discussed at the meeting held on Saturday last, of sufficient importance, in continuation of the same subject, please publish it. and oblige, Yours, &c, G. ARMSTRONG. ," Akaroa, 30th Dec, 1879. •'The Chairman Akaroa County Council. " Sir, —The Council appears to quite misunderstand my last letter, by the resolution they passed. That letter was simply to refute the statements made by the Road Board. I,never asked or wished the Council to in any way interfere with the Road Board. From the first my request has been for assistance, and that request was not made to the Council so long as the Road Board had funds. When their money was all gone, I applied to the Council for assistance who had the means and the power to assist me in a just claim, and by doing so were assisting the Road Board when they were unable to assist, themselves. The Road Board, in their wisdom, instead of assisting me in my application to the Council, opposed it, and tried to show that ample justice had been done me, although just before this your late Chairman, in his place on the lload Board, admitted that great injustice had been done mo in not making roads to my property. I am afraid the Road Bo;\rd element in the Council will not in the end redound to its credit. Fancy a man holding the position of Chairman of the Council and a seat on the Road Board, of which he is the guiding star, dictating a letter to the Clerk of the Road Board to be addressed to himself as Chairman of the County Council, with the view of its being laid before Council that they may assist him in opposing a just claim, and a claim the same man just lief ore admitted to be just, and these are the grounds on which the Council passed the following resolution :—' That this Council do not feel called upon to interfere with the Akaroa and Wainui Road in this matter.' " I now ask the Comity Council to look above this miserable attempt at subterfuge if they wish to get the support of the people of the Peninsula, and to meet cases like mine in a manly and candid spirit. By adopting this course, and this course alone, you will command the respect of " Your obedient servant, "GEORGE ARMSTRONG."