THE ROAD BOARD.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 354, 21 April 1868, Page 2

THE ROAD BOARD.

(To the Grey River Argus.) Sir I was present at a Meeting of the Road Board the Evening Mr Whall proposed that the Opinion of Mr Akin the Surveyor should be invited with regard to the Most practable line to form a Trunk Road from saltwater to niaori Gully & that it was not untill Barnhill stated that ho beleaved Mr Akin had never been over that portion of the Country & therefore could uot Give the Bord any information that the words you Referd to were used it was not the Ability of Mr Akin that was in di<scusson but his knowledge of the district i with regard to the Imputation you Cast upon the whole of the Members of the Road Boord includeing the Town En* gineer I leave the public to decide, but in the opinion of many they are without foundation & quite uncalled for. I think that you as an Editor- & as a Reporter should be more Carefnll I am &c Geo. Simmons. [We print Mr Simmons' letter, but we may simply state that Mr Simmons was ■not present at the meeting when the remarks regarding Mr Aitken were made, which were reported in ourissne, of the 11th inst. Acting on Mr Simmons' advice, we carefully print his letter ver* hatim et literatim. — Ed. G; It, A.]