THE LITTLE RIVER ROAD BOARD AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 618, 16 June 1882, Page 2

THE LITTLE RIVER ROAD BOARD AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL.

To the Editor.

Sjr ( —l gee by your last issue that the Little River Road Board have sent a congratulatory telegram to Sir John Hall on his being rained to knighthood. What an honor! First) the General Assembly, then the Little River Road Board J I should like to see his face when he receive h the letter, and the eager way he will rueh to a map of the world to see where Little River is located. Having done this honor to Sir J. Hall, they calmly proceed to abolish the Akaroa County Council. But, joking aside, is it not too biidi to spend the ratepayers' money in such nonsense as this ? I wonder they did not send congratulations to the Queen on her escape from assassination. Hnving written an imprudent letter to the County Council at their last meeting, and being put in a very wrong position by that body, they think it should be abolished. They say they are so well acquainted with the wants of their district, yet seemed quite nurprised when they were informed by the Council that there was an unfortunate man who had no road to his land, which fact has been notorious for along lime. lam afraid there is another reason for their enmity to the County Council. There are some on the Board whoso interests would be injured by the utilisation of that fine grazing lake reserve, the draining of which the Council is now urging upon the Government. The best thing the ratepiiyers of Little River could do would be to follow the example of the Akaroa and Wainui and Okatria Road Boards, and get up a petition to abolish theirs, or get some members into it with some knowledge of business, who would look after the interest of all the ratepayers. —Yours, etc.,