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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 35, 9 July 1885, Page 2

(TO' THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.) 'Sir, — At a meeting of settlers held m the schoolroom, Bunnythorpe, called, by Mr Aldrich an<l reported m your columns it Was resolved that at the next election of Wardens for the Manchester Road Board |: District, that they wouM.endeavor to get a hotter representative; now as I have the honor to represent No. 5 Ward, and have done so since the .'Board bas been m existence, I would stiggest that they do not wait till the next election but brinff forward some one that will be, willing to take the position. and I will resign at once, although fully aware of the honor of ibeing" chosen a>;a member to. watch* the-interest.bf the settlers inNo. 5 Ward which I have "done to. the best "of my ability, would only be too glad to see I souie better man come f-ir ward and will [at once give) him my support. Withre?, ! spect to the £300 spent outside the ward I can state without f ear of contradiction that there- ' has not been one ; shilling' of • rates raised m; the ward but has been spent m it. Had I known that there was a meeting .certainly. I would have, beenj there -to give any information^ as to;* the position of the wardl— l am^'&c. "I W. T. Bailey, ' v ' Warden for No. 5 'Ward^ Manchester v yK- •; ;v -Road- ""Boardi. -^ 5^ !;