Correspondence.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 26 February 1909, Page 2

Correspondence.

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Not One of ’em.—Nice time to send a letter, by mail ou Friday. Why waste a penny stamp F You could have pushed it under tbe door, ib could then have appeared in this issue. AWAKINO COUNTY MATTERS.

(to the editor ) Sir, —I must crave a small space in your paper to reply to Mr F. C. Derecourt’s letter which ap larerd in youe issue of the 12th. In .he first place I would like to state that I did hear a report that some thirds accruing from a section in tbe Kawhia County had been spent on tbe Awakino County’s portion of the Margapohue rood. If such report was true I lefv«he matter for the ratepayers in tbe Kawhia County to take what action they thought fit in the matter, it being no business of mine. I would like to pnintout to Mr Dorecourt that although both thirds and races are revenue to a County, they are not quite the 8;-.me, whereas rates can be spent on an? road within the riding in which the) are collected thirds can only be spent on * road leading to or through tbe section from which they accrue. It was rates I spoke of in my former letter, not thirds. But, Mr Editor, surely Mr Deiecourt does not think the spending of those thirds I have referred to (which would bo an illegal action if so done) would justify the Kawhia County Council in passing tbe resolution they did rf-lative to the Awakino County. I might as well contend because I did 8 >me little work in the Kawhia County a week or so ngo to enable me to cart my wool away I had the rigbf to write to the Commissioner of Crown Lauds, Auckland, and inform him of the report I had heard relative to tbe spending of the thirds Mr Derecourt refers to. I think not, and any right thinking person would think the same.— Yours, etc., EDWARD 0. STANLEY.