OKAIN'S BAY ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 501, 3 May 1881, Page 3

OKAIN'S BAY ROAD BOARD.

To the Editor. g lßi —Job during his sore affliction uttered the wish that his enemy would write a book. The Okain's Bay Road Board, when in extremis, by one of its members writes to the paper. What evil spirit over prompted Mr Oldridge to write what must be looked upon as the first of the confessions of a Itoad Board member in your issue of 26th April, will never probably be known. But the fact remains that Mr Oldridge's letter re the cheque for rates opens a chink, that allows a ray of light to fall upon the interesting way by which the funds of the ratepayers ultimately reach their destination at the credit of the Board's account. As an outsider the report in your paper of the Okain's Bay Koad Board v. Thacker, it does 6trike me that Mr Oldridge in addressing you has "been wise out of reason," hut in giving us ali tWd'etails ol the converse. . tion between himself and the Clerk, an d the journey of the little boy to the bank he omits like many other interesting writers, to tell why the boy could not have paid the cheque into the Board's account. Probably Mr Oldridge thought he was doing an innocent and kindly thing, but before he has any more of a similar nature, I would advise him to consult his solicitor. Tlicro was not a word said about a store account in the report, in fact, I did not know Mr 0. had risen to the dignity of a storekeeper (I trust Mr Editor you will not object to this style of advertising,) and Mr O's reference to the matter reminds one of the French proverb Qui s'excuse s accuse. Like the Parsons, Mr Editor, allow me to conclude with a moial that if n person id not a rate collector he cannot touch cheques for lates without being appointed, and should he unhappily do so, he should not wear his heait upon his sieve to bo picked at by a 1 JACKDAW. Okaiifa Bay, 30th April, 1881,