AWKWARD TIMES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 682, 26 January 1883, Page 2

AWKWARD TIMES.

It is impossible, of course, in framing Acts of Parliament to think of evetything, but we wish some member of the House would make it his business to see that annual meetings were called at the most suitable. times. To-morrow, for instance, is the date of the annual meeting of the Farmers' Club, and according to the Act it must be held in January. This means that at the very busiest season of-the year farmers have to meet. But this is not the worst case. The most generally important of all the meetings that have to be held during the year are undoubtedly the annual meetings for the election of School Committees, and these, according to the Act, must bo held in January. Now, in that montn, ou the Peninsula, every one is busy grass seeding, and the schools being so numerous, and the School Cotnm'Uteos forming no small part of the entire population, it follows that: there is a great loss of valuable .. time, which-; it must be recollected, cannot possibly be made up aftermards, for the cocksfoot will not wait for any meetings. Besides, in January the dairies are in full, swing also, so that time is indeed precious. But it is uot only the Peninsula that is affected, for it is the harvest month on the Plains, an 1 t!ie farmers there cannot spare time in many cases k> attend the meetings, and it often unfortunately happens that it is the best mon v/'no are absent, giving an opporturiir./ ■':• -orno idiot , , who in n>.) credit to the cu;;u.'-.iV'..e, to get on. iSinetj it would be better to have the u.ooiirris arranged to take place in .May, Aw, the bustle of the season is over.,

and people have time to attend ? If our member or s .-me other representative were to devote a little of-his time to thinking on this subject, and were to bring it to the notice of the House, ho would, in our opinion, be doing no little good to the community at large.