A GRIEVANCE FROM APITI.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 2

A GRIEVANCE FROM APITI.

TO THE EDIT9R OF THE STATt. Sir, — Some months ago, by a resolution of the Kiwitea Road Board, certain gates, which, by the way, were substantial and properly erected to swing each way, so that a child could shut them without risk or inconvenience, were removed at the instance of a settler who, had "a knife in" for Mr Lowes, through whdse property the road runs, at each end of which the gates were placed. Now, though these gates may have inconvenienced one man, yet they were of great use to many other settlers inasmuch as thep prevented cattle and horses wandering away to other parts of the district. I 'don't complain of what the Board has done, but I think it mighty cool impu dence that the man who objected to Mr Lowes keeping his gates standing should in his turn iiave rigged up slip bars across the road in the Feilding Block. What I want to know, Mr Editor, is this — Does kissing go by favor in Road Board matters ac in other things, because I am told the application of this same man was on a former occasion refused by the Board, and it is a toss up that if this hadn't happened Mr Lowes' gates would have been standing yet. — I am, &c, Travellee.