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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1932, Page 3

ANOTHER REPLY.

(Tii llie Kililor.) "dr, Vniir i chti'siiihiili'lil '*i' ll S ; 1 1 * ’ ’ e'ives till l newly In'lin'd Ifate- | in vers' Association ‘-Treat iledil 111 lII' ill”' alile l,u depose their town r>‘|> 1 *■ -.ell | ;i | i vis. I, id lls hope litis will he realised. This movement deserves fill' si'pport of all ratepayers for if means i 101 l united we stand div ided ue full. The lain;.* lid; come, ill OHJ upiliioli

| when South Westland Riding needs its own members. No doubt as your correspondent says, the matter of Peter-

sen’s Road has made us realise this

more. But it is also a definite forward step on the part of the settlers to have no more absentee representatives. No i doubt they have done their best Imt we are sure that our own members' can do better. Your correspondent says that this is not British fair play, which sounds rather like clap trap, but it , seems to us rather like sound British I common sense to put up onr own candidate and vote for him. We are rei l'errcd to as a “few” disgruntled settlors, but these same “few” have sent j two petitions to the Council signed by |4O and more ratepayers, pra^io"l ! y j every settler in the particular 'jp-l'ii t | concerned. The- Council di' s .”osesf.'4-dlv ! of theg|j'etitions. hut they will not dispose bP-tour “few” votes so easily Does your correspondent consider-, it British fair play to keep a settler wafting ten years for a road to his.farhi, at the whim of another settlor. Tf is 1 aitninst such inmstice that our Association wish to fight.

We, ik ratepayers, do not agree that -it is undue extravagance to pay a man con a year to see to our needs ft is our money and we do not begrudge it In fact it is not a large sum for the sacrifices made by the members and we .are convinced that Iho results will well re-pay the outlay. Would than the memebrs of (lie last Council bad b" >n as economically minded when spend ing onr money on surveys and re-sur-veys of Petersen’s Road, to say nothing of travelling expenses of County members to the scene of the argument, and two visits of the Department’s Chie” Engineer. We. as large and probably larger ratepayers,, wish ta see our money better spent, and trust that Riding Ratepayers will see to it on election day. 1 am etc..

P. S. HANSEN. Chairman, County Ratepayers’ Assn Harihari, South Westland.