MR KNIGHT AND THE AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 553, 1 November 1881, Page 2

MR KNIGHT AND THE AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD BOARD.

To the Editor. Sn:, — I have noticed a letter of Mr A. C. Knight's to the County Council, in which he again attacks the Road Board. The errors of his statements are p dent to all who have rend the matter up. He snys that the real trespass is across Rhodes's Flat. I say Mr Barrett has nothing whatever to do with the road ; the road in question is the property of the public, and any question of trespass or compensation must be settled by Barrett and Rhodes, as the public are in possession of the new road through Rhodes's Flat and Barrett understands his position with his landlord thoroughly.

Mr Knight asks the Cnincil not to lose sight of the work, and complains of the great hardship it is, to be without a road ; but ho does not state to the Council how many thousands tho Wainui people have had spent in their district—more than the}had a right to —which money should have been spent in Berard. In 1879 tbere was no less than £25-12 17s 3d spent in Wainui. and their rateable value for 1878 was £3066 Os. Berard, for the same year, had spent £1769 9s 6d, and its rateable value was £8838 Is. Mr Knight knows this as well as I do, but he took good care not to state it in his complaints to the Council of the unfair way the Board spent its money in Wainui. The ratepayers of Berard have a right to make their voices heard, more especially those living in Flea, Stony, Bairy's. ilayloek'*-. Gough's, Fisherman's, and Waikerakikari Bays, for they have been nibbed far the benefit of their neighhoi's, who aie like the grave, and cry '•Give, give." I think, sir, the above figures ~n: .-iuiiieient for the most sceptical, and if Mr Knight wants any more facts to lay before ihe Council at its next meeting, to show how unfairly the Board has dealt with Wainui, 1 am quite willing to supply him with tha truth as to how much more th:v* its rair share Wainui has received.

I regret as much as any one that the Board has not funds to make a road to every man's door, but I can assure Mr Knight that I for one will not sit on tbe Road Board and see the whole of its funds drifting across the harbor to Wainui without letting my Voice be heard against it.

Apologising for taking so much of your valuable space.—Yours, etc., E. S; CIIAPPELL.