VALUERS TO THE BOARD.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 22, 18 January 1879, Page 2

VALUERS TO THE BOARD.

TO THB BDITOIt. Sir,— l regret that owing to tho omission of youp report of the proceedings of the Mauawatij. Highway B *rd at it's last sitting, m your issue of the I Ith, Mr. Linton and others are led to. believe that I appointed valuators to the Board upon my" ow^n respn sibility. Will you allow 'lpe'^rafcrtf rect -this nu<« take ? G»n the 18th December; vu t »n finding that through 'an oversight the Board had omitted to appoint valuators, 1 addressed a .circular ».ti> each of thp members of the Board; stating am h to be the fact, and also stating that -Messrs. Keeling and He had offered *o do the valuation for such a price, and requesting a reply at once. In course of post I received a reply from Messrs, MeE,wen, Bruce, apd McKenzie, ap.: proving of these gep Heme u being appointed j and from. -Mr. Dawson, not approving, but 'reootaipending Mr,.J. W. Gower as valuator Sor his Ward. Upon receipt of these letters I appointed' Messrs. Keeling and, Hol\ .pending the endorsement of my action by the Board, and I have no duirht but these gentlomen will perform „'their v duties.\to the satisfaction of the Board and the ratepayers generally. Had I been awareo.f the clause m tho Hating- 'Act giving power to the Board to apply for ai extension of time for receiving the valuator's report, the probability is; that I would have recommended tlie Board to. adopt that course, but I wa,-* not aware until the morning of the loth, when the Secretary, Mr. Hah?,, drew my attention to-it. -.1. -Teg ret that Mr. Lin! on should have barm led to believe that the appointment was made- by me m a privatemanner, or that I wish to dispense with his services to the Boai-d. I ean.o^ly endorse what, he says,, that -.he has been connected with the- Board for a long time, and as a rulVhas carried out his. duties to.Uie satisfaction of- the Board and the ratepayers generally. With re. g>ird"teL" "sonic remarks majje by your Foxton correspondent '-' Ratepayer," [ never reply to aiijuiymous correspond-. cut.% but I think'he .must be troubled with indigostiou.— t am, &c. f -J.: T. Da£uymplb. Te. Matai, loth Jan-narr.