AN EXPLANATION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 427, 24 August 1880, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

To the Editor.

Sir, —My attention kas just been drawn to a statement of Mr H. Fenton'a in reference to my claim for road compensation, reported in your issue of 10th inst. as having been made at the meeting of the Akaroa and VVainui Road Board, hold on 7th inst. The compensation award in this case was made by Mr Ollivier about two years ago, and from the time of the award until now, I have been put off— from surveyor to solicitor, and from solicitor to surveyor; and this has been, I understand, the experience of almost all those who wore unfortunate enough to have anything to do with the compensation for roads owing by the late Provincial Council as administered in this district. For over twenty months, the solicitor tells me he has not got the plans from the surveyor, but after pressure is brought to bear upon him froia headquarters they are at last unearthed, and a title is handed to that gentleman, which I am informed by my solicitors (one of the largest firms in Christchurch) is sufficient for every pur-

pose of conveyance

It would be interesting to know how Mr Fenton came by the gratuitous price of information that I was not in a position to give the necessary convej'ance, as he had neither seen nor could he know anything of my title. For a gentleman in Mr Fenton's position to state to a public Board that my title is a defective one, of course is a matter in which I shall be guided by my solicitors' advice in any course I may elect to take, but the Government in making the choice of local surveyors and solicitors in such cases should take care that the public interest does not suffer by those gentlemen having either local feelings or personal interests in the matters entrusted to their professional conducting.—l am, etc., GEORGE BREITMEYER.