THEM GOVERNMENT CHAPS.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 22, 26 June 1875, Page 3

THEM GOVERNMENT CHAPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATEA MAIL, Suit, —Master Gibson’s letter is a good an playn sensible un, but ’tis no use a talking to them Government chaps; they bo all alike. They only wants thcr pay. I thinks a char man’s is a rosy billet, if he’s got to fight every stupid feller that draws pay for a doing mischief, and a foolin money away. The only thing that would put the set on era would be a GULLOTIN. WANGANUI-WAITOTARA BOARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATEA MAIL. Sir. —Referring to Mr Wilson's letter in your last issue, possibly the old WanganuiWaitotara Board thought nothing about the inconvenience the new district would be put to by the valuation being made according to the old boundaries of wards ; but Mr Wilson is wrong in saying no obstruction was put in the way of the forming of the new district, as there is now at Wairoa a copy of a very long letter from Mr Russell, the chairman of the old Board, addressed to the Superintendent of the Province, which teems with obstructiveness and ill-feeling. Very possibly the other members of the Board never saw it. At the time the valuation was taken, the separation of the district was not only contemplated, as Mr Wilson puts it, but was an accomplished fact, a proclamation having appeared in the “Gazette” to that effect; and according to clause 10 of the “Highways Act, 1874,” the old Board merely acts in such a case until the new wardens are appointed. The valuation was, I suppose, ordered in March, which no doubt accounts for the Board taking no notice of the now arrangement of wards ; but when the new district was proclaimed, it would have been no trouble to the Board, and no extra expense, to have had the valuation so arranged as to suit the new district. The valuation was not taken till late in April. In conclusion, as far as Mr Wilson is concerned, he deserves the thanks of the ratepayers for devoting so much time and attention to their interests for the past three years, and I quite agree with him that the ratepayers of his ward have received full value for their rates. I am, &c., WAIROA CORRESPONDENT. Wairoa, June 19, 1875.