COUNTY SUSPENSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 293, 14 November 1883, Page 2

COUNTY SUSPENSION.

" ' fWoodWlie Examiner.! )■ i The rateable Talue of the Wopdville Riding is about £140,00 J, and xilose 5 upon £300 iaat the present time collected and spent under tho mAqagement pf the Koad BJard. W^'" should be afraid tV say^What the l County expenditure amounts to anually, but tj^at il is not eq^al to this, it; is easy to see. At a meeting of , settlers' held m the Pahiatua'distncb, 1 sbnie 'time ago, it Vas said that the ' Wairarapa East j County Council hal expended some of the Pahiatua fates by mistake, m metaHios |tfaßlertWQr~fooipaih.^. We do not i char^rtliV !Waipa>a Cbtuiy Council with misapprbpria/ting VWood-" yille rate money, atthouga Vwt) ire %n able i6 'say wnei-Ker^br' no k^j oi it'haß b^eu Bpe«it'ia"^'afj^a^. : M^rb'^rdb-iß.'y ' it has not 'been 'spent 'at''ailj : 'aS ; a p/orfcion of the rates is m arrears and js not jet cbliecfcey^ {.faeie 'ii/ wltiia&biigemeht sdme^tierVi's p a'ri, and 1 ittac ,we are juitined, nay, more, called upon as a duty Yin the; "interests of , pur district, to endeavdiir to have matters put up.oh'a'Mbetlfei' 1 fcjcjtift^. is equally clear. In th'e'bVen^oif : tlal Counties' Aci being " hung up," the double rate tbat would accrue \o the Woodviile Boad Board

would amount to £600 a j*ar, a handsome sum indeed. County monies may only be spent on County roads, but if the Koad Boarl handled the donble rate, this drawback would ba done away with, and the whole of lha ironies expended where moat required. Harding's road, which is a County real, a d a most important one, as opening up a large district, and one that is fast growingyhas -been actually impassable all throu h,the winder. Had it not boen so, 'Waddrille would have done more business -with-rKumeroa -and Pnketoi ; whereas Tahbroite has bal ; its share of it obriously to> our -^isai vantage, t If our township is to be- Ibikid upon as a centre, it must bs so from the first when the., outlying districts are yonng^ptherwiseit will berhard to secure their bus* torn when it becomes larger and well worth having. .... ~ ...