WHOSE CULVERT IS IT? ETC.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 522, 15 July 1881, Page 3

WHOSE CULVERT IS IT? ETC.

To the Editor. Sir,—Your reports of the doinga of the Akaroaßorough Council and of the Akaroa and Wainui Road Board aie very funny foreanint that name culvert at Waeckerle 8 corner. There must be crass ignorance, for neither party seems to know the proper place to toe tlie mark. However, as Mr Barwick is the medium "to be referred to ' and the reporter for both bodies, probably they will both give him the same instructions, while poor weak Road Board does the work under protest. Another ad misericordiani appeal, and to Mr Piper this time, not the 0. C, that as the Koad Board cannot afford .the co3t of electing his successor, they hope he will withdraw his resignation etc., How very cheering it must be to find one'sself a unit in so very caieful and virtuous a community 1 Yet what a sacrifice it must be to H. P. to be martyred for the sake of a few bobs! Fie! Bend Freddy round ■ t ith the hat, and let's have an election. I chanced to meet a boy the other day ; he told me he was a eon of old Edrnond's. He had a double-barrel, a brnce of dogs, and big pockets ditto—a veritable sportsman by instinct. In the couise of conversation he informed me he had been a road contractor for twenty years, but that lately he had been compelled to file his shovel, the reason being that some individual in power had " set " him for having boiled hii billy with a bundle of sticks by the wayside- " But if," added the sportsman, "ihe Board ed galloped over my contract at the time they did Tim So and So's they'd have pf sred it flying ; «»d why didn,t (hey ? That's it."—l am, etc., PERIPATETIC PEDLAR. ; ■ Aknroa, July 13.