PATEA HARBOUR BOARD.
(TO THE EDITOR OF Till!: PATEA MAIL* SIR, —It wa« with feelings of disgust I read in your issue of the 29th the mode of forming a Harbour Board for Patea.. The cry of the Government in proposing Abolition of the Provinces, was, “ local Government,” i.e., local bodies were lo have the power to tax or rate themselves, and lo spend the money. What have we, local, in this abortion of a Harbour Act ? The Government at Wellington nominate three ; Carlyle Town Board sends three, and the whole of the settlers in the County (Carlyle excepted) send *• one,” viz., the County Chairman. This is “ local Government ” with a vengeance; the whole of the settlers in the County taxed, Carlyle Town Board and the Government at Wellington spend the money. I am, &c., Country Settler,
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 172, 2 December 1876, Page 2
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