ROAD BOARDS AND CASH IN HAND.
(To the Editor of the Patßa Mail.) Sir,— -Can you or anyone else inform me lipon what system the Hoad Board of this district’ acts, in spending the rates collected in the different wards; I observe that in some wards the full amount is spoilt On the roads; thereby benefitting all parties concerned. In Others only a portion of tlie rates are spent (and that only where it shits the Warden) —Ihe balance beiilg allowed td accumulate in the Bank, while many of the ratepayers are put to great inconvenience and expeiise for want of roads: I Would also like to know what right tlie Board have tb alter existing road lines (to the injury of the ratepayers Concerned); and to impound off the same before they are gazetted as such,- or eveil fenced: By inserting the above iii yb'tir paper,' you Will much oblige, .A SUFFERER: Waverley, ApriM, 1878;
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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 309, 3 April 1878, Page 2
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156ROAD BOARDS AND CASH IN HAND. Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 309, 3 April 1878, Page 2
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