WAIMAKARIRI-ASHLEY WATER SUPPLY BOARD.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11510, 17 February 1903, Page 9

WAIMAKARIRI-ASHLEY WATER SUPPLY BOARD.

TO THB EDITOR OF THE PRESS.

Sir,—l sympathise with "A Ratepayer" in bis trouble about .paying for water and getting none. Mr Dixon need not have jumped down his throat. There is nothing cowardly in criticising, as "A Ratepayer" did, tlie actions of a publio body without personalities. Mr Dixon says he is acting "in the very best interests of the largest number." His idea of that is to keep ratepayers three or four months without water, and he sayß he shall continue to do so, but I hope not. He refers "A Ratepayer" to the Board. What is Hie good? The Board have token to holding their meetings in a hole-and-corner faehion, sometimes at Oxford, sometimes at Cust, and are no longer reported. A petition was forwarded them from leading ratepayers in Fernsid»t and Rangiora districts praying for a fair acreage rote in place of valuation rate. Will Mr Dixon say how many months it lay in the office without any notice being taken of it? The" most extraordinary part of Mr Dixon's letter of February 14th is where j be, whom we have always regarded as the champion of Brown's Rock intake from the first, now eats afl his words when he tells us that it would be a serious waste of money to spend a few hundreds upon trying to improve it, because even tnat would "in no way guarantee the supply. He now wants to commit the district to a new selieme from the Ashley river. Surely before next Water Board elections it would be better for him to vouchsafe the ratepayers full information on tlie Board's recent actions instead of waiting to have it dragged out of him.—.ours, eto * FERNSIDE.