Feilding Star. TUESDAY, SEPT. 4, 1888. A Gross Injustice
Otm readers will notice, in our report of the proceedings of the Manchester Road Board meeting held on Saturday, that upwards of two hundred pounds of the ratepayers money have been spent on the Onepuhi bridge as their share of the whole cost of the repairs, and not one farthing of that amount was earned by any of the local ratepayers; nor was the chance given them of either working ou the job as day laborers, or as contractors. With the exception of the money paid for the timber used, the whole sum of nearly five hundred pounds, was spent on the Marton side of the river. If the Chairman of the Board, Mr Bull, had been more alive to the interests of the ratepayers, this gross injustice toithem could never have been perpetrated. ..
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 37, 4 September 1888, Page 2
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