THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 187, 20 June 1874, Page 2

THE BAY OF PLENTY TIMES.

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1874.

2. he spirit of the times shall teach me speed. ’* Klin a JOHN, ACT IY,

We commend the following clauses of the Municipal Corporation Act, 1867, to the attention of the Tauranga Town Board, in the hope that the members of that body may be able to point a moral therefrom :—“Any person guilty of any of the following offences, omissions, or neglects within the town shall, on being convicted of any such offence, omission, or neglect, be liable to pav any penalty not exceeding five pounds (£5) ; that is to say:—l. Having on any premises, or under the control of the owner of any premises, any excavation for the deposit of escrementitious matter; 2. Having any closet other than those known as earth closets ; 3. Having earth closets unprovided with a box or other moveable receptacle for excrementitious matter, or having the same below the surface or floor of such closet ; 4. Neglecting to keep or use in any earth closet a supply of dry earth reasonably sufficient for disinfecting or deodorising purposes; 5. Neglecting to clean out, or to provide for the cleaning out, of any earth closet at least once within every fourteen days.” It is rumoured that Captain Tanks will shortly receive the appointment of Immigration Officer for this district. We sincerely hope the report may prove true. A better man could not be found throughout the Bay of Plenty. The Cameron Road is almost impassable owing to the heavy rains. It is rutnoured that a petition is being got up, requesting the Highway Board to put a stop to this .work till the spring. It certainly is most extraordinary, that road works should have been started in midwinter.

r Captain Proece, and .twenty men attached to the .Native Contingent arrived at Te Teto on Sunday last, having matched from Napier over land to that elation/ The men proceeded to VV ellmgton some three months ago, to go thronoh a course of drill, and have just returned from tfchat classical City. > J A meeting of the members of the Tauranaa Cavalry Corps, on « business of importance ” is convened by Lieutenant Connor, Officer Commanding, for Monday svenutg, at 7 o’clock, at the Tauranga Hotel. * “A Voice from the Crowd” writes to us regarding the Town Board:—“The principal fault of all previous Boards has been indecision that is, commencing to do something aad leaving it half finished—as for instance, Harington Hamilton, aad Wharf streets. There is not one solitary street in the township finished. The Beach Road is the only piece of work that approaches completion j and this work would never hove been attempted, had it not been made compulsory on the part of Board to do so by the Provincial authorities who advanced the money. If the money which the Board received during the last twelve months had been judiciously laid out —work commenced at the proper season of the pear —that money would have produced three time the amount of improvements at the same cost, and been done in a far more satisfactory and substantial manner. Another great cause of this year’s confusion in Board' matters, was the varied interests of individual members of the Board at the outset. Latterly, there has been a unity of action, each member of the Board having property on the new contract road, now being made to pass by Hevonport road, consequently, in this instance, there has been no disputings or bickerings—each member’s interests being identical with the other’s. Great dissatisfaction is expressed, and not without good reason at the fencing in the roads adjoining the estates of the members of the Road Board. One member alone is said to have closed no less than two or three roads, and is now grazing bis horses upon the green pastures of the public highway. It would only be Just to impose a rent- for those occupied roads: this plan would assist to replenish the now almost empty chest of the Board, and give the new Board *a show,*