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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 249, 16 September 1865, Page 2

His Honor the Superintendent may be expected here about Monday, on a visit to this district. Whatever may have been his Honor's policy in other positions, the duty of the residents of the district is to receive the Chief Officer of the Province in a proper manner. He was elected by the votes of a majority of the electors, and we are therefore, in duty bound, to r.spect the gentleman chosen for eighteen months to preside over our interests. Apart from this, however, we trust the reception accorded to Mr Dick will be a genial one, and that, as he visits the Wakatip for the first time, such steps will be taken as will necessarily open his eyes to the unlimited resources of the district. We are glad to see the Queenstown Town Committee acting so judiciously, and have every reason to believe that the honor and credit of the district is safe in their hands. It would, however, be desirable if the School Committee met Mr Dick, who is the head of the Educational Board. The Race Club are also partly indebted to his Honor's Government for their noble, but still unfenced recreation ground on Frankton Flat, and which could also be adapted as a public park and be made the seat of an up-country Acclimatisation Society. In making these remarks we should be sorry to be understood as advising the inhabitants to claim definite promises from the Superintendent. Firstly, it would be useless, as his Honor has chosen to rule by his Executive ; and secondly—and chiefly—because we have had so many repudiated promises made that it would be much better not to incur the risk of eating more dirt. The influence and moral support of his Honor is all that should be looked to, and to gain which important and valuable auxilliary we trust the inhabitants will act in no niggardly spirit.