A VOICE FROM BUNNYTHORPE.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 165, 15 October 1881, Page 2

A VOICE FROM BUNNYTHORPE.

: •""•-•■; Td : , THE" EDITOR. '. ♦ ' ■ij- !§r^— W,e had a meeting at the Taonni^ IcjoM to-day, convened bvMr.Mac^ 'arjth;?r r| . t\ae, pnrpose bein», . to :consifler < 1 the 'best \yay o^f spending the £300 voted ' 'Hv fhf On.u l nty pounciioa thp road along the "railwia^'to 1 Feildiri^. However, as the meeting ,was but Very pomly a>tended, it j was, consideried .wise ' to adjourn it. JV hat ! f.ii rhrised l^ me was, that scarcely any of the settlers"in the Manawatu . HiwTiwavsT^istnet :were present, not evea the Warden nearest concerned Perhaps 'it hie notice ,given by Mr. MacaTthur was. . rajtlier ; yhort; IJ I bop?" f all those living . about Bnnnvthorpe will attend the next meeting. ,Tliis road "is'like an orphan. D^?bn>s e ito the M'nnawatn Higbwoys Etyard ; but as most of the settlors alongit | are absentees, that" Board seems ta ignore it altogiether^-thus the *sett!er» living on the- other 'side of -the railway hnvef the' rsa'tisfection'ofi paying fates ta • th'p County Council, to the Manchester Highways-HBoard (Kbi S^'WaH), and 3 having a ; road that, if nothingr'js done wilt brjeak sc>mehody Il ßijeckyeti- -The County Council,; hag, ihowkrerj; acknowledged it» ; duties to-do something for vm, and Mr. Macartbur got ; £300 to be spent. Tt i* now to be hoped that this act will induce the Manawatn Hi whways Board to do-' - '^something.: at thfe; same time ; if not; how- ; t can it be expected that the County Conn-: ■' cil will help m the future. TheM H 8. , gi|t» the rates frbm, all th.c land along the line; and'hasyas I kndwj not spent » single penny oa ;it yefc< .Burely ; , £100 vk the least theylian add to the £^Qo.* Before adjourning the meeting, M*v Macaurthur read a report of tht MancJiei*

ter Highway Boards engineer, according to which, the. repair and widening of bridges.and culvertb will amount. to £190, leaving only £110 for formation, unless the Manawatu Highways Board does iis, duty as hinted above. The question to be decided at the next meeting/will be — How and where to spend it. I hope the settler* ' will attend, as really our first want is good roads; when we have got tbtise, w can start co-operating m dairy farms, &c, &c. — 1 am&c, A Road, a Road, my Ktkdom Tor a ItOAD. [We do not wonder there was no attendance at the meeting, as it was not advertised. We never heard of it.— Ep.M.T.]