PUBLIC MEETING, LITTLE RIVER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 424, 13 August 1880, Page 2

PUBLIC MEETING, LITTLE RIVER.

(FROM OUR WN CORRESPONDENT.)

A meeting of the residents in Little River was held in the schoolroom on Tuesday evening, the 10th inst., to consider the action taken in Pigeon Bay and Akaroa re the subsidy, for tho mail by coach. Tbe meeting was well attended. *■ Mr A. Dr-Alfajiiwas voted to tho chair. '' 'The Chairman .having rend the notice convening jhemeeung, stated his reasons for calling it, and read the reports as published in the Akaroa Mail of the pnblic held in Pigeon Bay and Akaroa. Ho.said Fenton had introduced foreign into th\ discussion, stating that the ' roads % 6n the Peninsula cost ten times the amount of tho roads on the Plains, which he considered was talking " shop." -? yr a that vM*. iFeJitol*oughr to have said gradin roads. Mr Olphert and Judge happened to be in Chriatchurch on Wednesday last, and bearing of .iuAwftieeting* -of *-*the^' s "de*plifatibn^lfroiii • Akaroa, went to it, but on seeking admisinformjed the meeting was |a tfrivate one| Jttiia looked like hole-andf corner work. ■ .....,, .j, ✓•» -j |nt cpiroborpted the ;CUairni«'« statement. *r .= .-'■' -- — ( , r^he\CJfaii[min| also said that he had, "written "arid forwarded a letter to the! ■'Premier at Wellington, which he wou!d { "road. ( [Letter, read,!/ lie liad/, alsp'/'nallfiedfto the Premier tliat]he>lWPAlK geJLaj copy of this letter signed ,by„ tb,e. inhabit-1 ants of Little River, andWPUldlorwarcUt \j£\i%]e\te£ Vaoigned by. 11l present. Mr Coop said the mail service via Little *rinum '(■ • tHe Pigeon Bay., serv, ~/£;2sQ;«Jcoach £90, 'which'made £340: and the mail coach •s|Bs|ng Kittii f River' carried the Pigeon Bay mail to the Head of the Bay, as well af* the- f passenger-r and luggagewhich l itself "was. a considerable amoijpit, and„ which he considered ought to be ch^j-gedf tp{t|»s; jslrvice if it wks desired "to find out which, of the two TOutes" ia the 'Cheapest.,, He maintainedI *■ ' ■■ '{f PI I * 111- *) •" i'- J il> % * * ■ I**' '* * 'thatjf' .long l: c}ianged) for' U would throw,out tho whole: of 'the passenger, arrangements between Christchurch, Little River, and

"theTHead of the Bay, including &b.; and cost the Government for |th,e jnajl; by .the: Pigeon Bay route—stealer ! £250, ., c0ach * £90,4 and ; : addltibhal ', ' coacli hire another«£lso, or l in roupd, numbers £500 per annum, and if a daily mail, they might reckon close upon £1000 ; whereas itlie present' Little River, which for the! pre-, sent and trie only' Way to get at economy; He wOuid'Hke 1 to know why Ihe large number of inhabitants residing along ; the"' route "from Christchurch to Ale area', say Lincoln road, Tai-tapu, and the bays between there and Little River, and on to Duvauchelle's Ba}-, that being the only trunk road on the Peninsula

should be ignored by the residents in Sleepy Hollow, ac they named_tl|p«ise|ves#JwhjSh haml hi wa*i \ot preparlq tol |lorse,| aa fc 'jhe^,Virfc\*uite' widi a.WakV enough and abj.e to take care of themse|lves where/their bwn interests were concerned. "He did not,think Littlo, River to fearat the" lianda. .of -G«vernnient especially when -the, i 'prqpo*«dV'Pi&onf Bay :% service ,wpuld bVfoumHo'cost close oajlsOQjter felfquiti'sure-ihe GovenuneritT -9«r<mld' iftA < 'd3*&ICL v?l {•*■; ,-*TjK '. ,;',:,. ) i'At Ahd request'of.the meeting, the Chairman rerjorj; of \ the meeting of the -Akaroa depji t«s4h| fond also thejreport of itajriterview'witlTthe Chief Postmaster. jthat the <Pigeon \Bays mfjil'could be | forwarded 'from the Hill ;t<SjP- \ : i]'z-\ M : ■ \-'. ■ ; ' \i Mr.Coop said the. real* aqqi-tion at kissW , - wjas,if.-o*ia.aerviee i ~wae-to"^e*^o"ne/awaj;,' with, which should it be ?„, Certainly not? W M *-CjH~\ "/ u'.« ~,\ v Mr Walters saidlie had a resolution, to propose,, :—•• That> the action taken by the_^gep^^aj^jjrid^^Akaroaon th\jubject|Ofi itha event of the GoVernhierit'determining to withdraw tho WH9 e ®° r 8 . tttl *Bervffies atpreaent existing between Christchurch and Akaroa, this meeting is of opinion that the Pigeon Bay service is the best calculated to serve the Peninsula, and might be made, by a little extra cost, a daily one'—is of opinion that the said

people of Akaroa were going entirely out of-their province ih"makihg any allusion f-wh'ate-/|3"r jA the t ra F e *# r* e kdmlf city, ; valualile the im|>aitance and value of which only deceases as it roaches Akaroa." The p^asengerft■CConveyer.by.d r. by. I the ; mail the] city ; were,*]*s,■>them:-) the: .superior advantages' of the LMe-R'iveftiline.-■: ;* • • Mr j Coop said he would second ,the.resolution! provided the mover would Withdraw | that portion after the word to and including the word -^oAkaroaVi !' Mr Wallers having agreed tp ; thi ; s ); the 'jrSSblu'tio'n iaa amended ; was jmi 'mjee'ting'arid carried unanimously. ' '"A" vote'of thanks to tho chair terminated the proceedings. . \ t ..ii J ■ '