KAITANGATA.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 226, 8 November 1878, Page 6

KAITANGATA.

[from our own correspondent.]

In your issue of the Ist inst. your Wangaloa correspondent mentions that " there was to have been a meeting of the Kaitangata Road Board last Saturday but as there was no quorum it had to be postponed." Your correspondent might have added that the Kaitangata members who have to come a distance of five miles' were present, and looked for some three hours, but in vain, for the Wangaloa members to turn up. How the meetings of the Board are held at Wangaloa at all seems a mystery to most people, aud it is certainly high time matters were put on a more equitable footing. The nomination for County Councillor on Saturday was also held at Wangaloa ; schoolhouse. As the business was hurried over with something like indecent haste, the consequence was that Mr R. Beattie was returned unopposed. By this share practice Mr William Shore, who was to have been nominated, was left out in the cold. Fortunately Mr R. Beattie (about whom nobody seems to know much) is not on the County roll, and consequently cannot occupy a seat in the County Council. Mr William Shore, on the contrary, is a tried and practical man, of lar^e administrative capacity, and had the matter come to a poll he would have been returned by an overwhelming majority, as he is universally and justly respected in the district. It may be mentioned that Mr Thomas Stevens, who was to have seconded Mr Shore's nomination, reached the Wangaloa schoolhouse just three minutes past twelve o'clock, when he found to his extreme disgust that he was m time to be too late. Considering the state in which the Kaitangata roads were left by the recent floods, it is of the highest possible importance that a man of experience and with some knowledge of practical engineerino* should be secured as Councillor for the Kaitangata Riding at the present time.