OUR LOCAL BOARDS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 143, 23 August 1876, Page 2

OUR LOCAL BOARDS.

j (TO THE EDITOR OF THE PATEA MAIL.)' ■ Sir, —Will- you kindly allow nie through jyoiir columns' to call*the attention of the jpublic to the great.inconvenience likely to me incurred in this district in consequence jof ’ tlie ,;f ail ayes of ithe£ Superintendent, to ‘convene the usual annual meeting of ratejpayefejvior; the, purpose, of electing! pew ? Sroad , commissioners and-, striking a; rate'. lAs !Under)tbo. npw : . regulations (provided - ’the CQuhtfes aiidipther. attendant! .hills’are; i 'carried^np'ribw,election, can possibly take jplace before November next.: and quite iprobjibly considerably lately ■’¥'would like Ito know’if all local works? in ‘the district !are to be at a standstill in the interim, Iwhen- works 5 Are so'urgently needed, and the time, .winch, we are toj be ;idle .being jthe proper season when such works should ;be carried, out.. Now-, Sir,' .having made ' the' above remarks,- I- suppose. I am expected to suggest a 1 remedy, What, I Would suggest is, that the Superintendent Ibe requested! to call the annual meeting |tb* elect thofboard,- and .strike a rate for—say three months. I mention three months,- ; a s ! i see by the Financial Statement that thefrovernmenthas provided the capitationl an<s special allowances"? for that period* tinder the old system, and I doubt very imnbh, if We. do not properly exert ourselves in tliife matter, whether any portion |of that allowance for the'Tarahalri province iwitf ever reach this 1 ' out district,' knbwing*'. ■thb tenacity with Which- 1 the' Provincial? authorities' at headquarters sticli- tO* ; thfe'; .needful. >'■ l - V ; ■ '

■; Hoping this-matter may betakcn iip and pushed forward'in proper spirit.—l am, . 7. i,! ' : { j! \ ■ PROGRESS.