THE PAROA ROAD BOARD ELECTION.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1987, 18 December 1874, Page 2

THE PAROA R OAD BOARD ELECTION.

! [TO THE ;i EDMO&]i--^ v^j '.?;. SiK,-r-Tn reference,. to the late Road' Board election, I would beg topointjoj.it •tbatthe^Coiirt House at ; 'Maori GrSefe'is^ l ! '«fficiftlly ; :^ known as >' Clifton Couri' BLouae." The' Post Office also is knbwn las Clifton.. Post Office, ( and Maori Creek) forms a'pktt aiidi parceKof Clifton .Clifton is'ifie ,uam e ■jthat the w hole place is known by, 'and there w.-pq other official name' fyrvit. i The Pq3tjX)ffice authorities; call "it >{ -Cliftoo j-rthe Magistrates Wd ; their mieejtw, ings and issue publichouae licenses: there' as. Clifton.; the. miners' rights, are i3suJßdr, from there and known as coming from Clifton ; in fact, there is no such place; kn^Wd officially^ as Moari Creek. .The CrturtiPouse, ia- the .same, but only removed about a quarter of a mile. Itjs therefore contended that it is one -arid the same, and that the election is perfectly valid: Supposing the Court House was shifted at Greymouth to another situation, would that haye 1 invalidated an election? And it is the same exactly at OJifton. I submit, therefore, that the Returning. OlScer had no power to declare, the election null and void, and that the three gentlemen at the had of the poll have been duly elected. ... . .., . „ I am, &c, , ■■-■—- ■. ■ Maksden. ■'• December 17. •: