COUNTY COUNCIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 388, 23 April 1880, Page 3

COUNTY COUNCIL.

To tlie Editor of the Akaroa Mail

Srß,—l hope you will allow me to draw tho attention of "One of the members" to the way in which he has read " Ratepayer's " letter in your of the 9th. In the first place he says " Ratepayer " has a " fling at one of the members.' I "have: read his letter carefully for a second time and fail to see how he has a slap at one, unless, indeed, the item £34 His fid, is the airears due tojthe member who seems to have got , a cap to fit and put it on—carefully. I would not like myself to have the honor of being dragged forty miles on horseback at my own expense, and if he cannot afford it so much the worse. I sympathise with liini, and would- strongly recommend him to stay at home; for I consider, with '* Ratepayer " that looking at the expenditure of the County Council oh the one hand and the business/done on the other, it takes the travelling expenses and the Clerk's salary to make the business weigh at all. A more glaring humbug in my estimation never existed.

With regard to his reading of the paragraph which touches on the Clerk's salary, once more he is in fault, I make the half of the "latter sum" ii'l9s, but I may be wrong. "We pay for bur brains." Independent oi the last, •.' Ratepayer " says nothing to the detriment of tbe County Council's clerk. He is a good man in a good place—l wish I had one like it—and far from saying anything detrimeutary—-I speak from my own dealings with the gentleman — a more suitable man could not well be found. But it does not follow that because of that, the Council are to squander unnecessarily the ratepayer's money. It is they who are in fault. Tho sooner some reformation of some of these matters is begun, tbe better for all. Yours, &c,

CONCRETIO.