CORRESPONDENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 16, 9 August 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MAN AWATU -MEMBER. ■ _ _ v TO -THE EDITr>B. Sir,— lt was reported that our celebrated engineer, Mr B'lackett, came up the Coast immediately after the floods, to visit the bridges along the railway line, with the object of recommending to the Minister of Public Works certain permanent improvements, so as to prevent accident- - . If that had b^en done we should nut be suffering tbe same hardships we are now undergoing. I am | afraid we have too many heavily paid feather-bed public servants, and when j accidents occur extra work and blame is | j thrown on under-paid subordinates. I Manawatu is particuhiry unfortunate in I I having a menber who trents the electors i as though it were a pocket Borough. ! And only on the ere of an election does 'he come *».mong his constituents. The j reason Mr Johnston was elected was ! because Manawatu was particularly j loyal, and wished to strengthen the i then Government. But are we not paying too dear for our loyalty f And is our M ember honest in taking advantage of our generosity ? I have no doubt that | if our member used the same diligence in in getting justice done to us that the southern members do for their constituents, in a very few years the Manawatu County would be second to none in New Zealand in wealth and prosperity ; but if we are allowed to drift we shall soon run on a lea shore. — I am, &c, Shellback. Feilding. Aug 9th, ISB2.