A WORD FOR ROAD BOARDS.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 380, 7 December 1878, Page 2

A WORD FOR ROAD BOARDS.

(To the Editor of the Pate a Mail.) Sir, —The statement made by Mr Sherwood, at the meeting of the County Council, on the 6th of November, re handing over the main roads to the vafiotis Road Boards, is lilrely to mislead the outside public, when he says it costs £1,200 a year to manage the Road Boards; The statement is as near the truth as can be expected from Mr Sherwood. The outside of the expenditure of the four Road Boards, within the County, is less than £l5O per annum for management, and we have local government for our money. Mr Milne expresses the opinion of the country settlers generally, when he says, “ The County Council has made d mess of everything they have undertaken, and if the Road Boards could not do better than the County Council, the quicker the whole lot is swept away the better.” What can members of the Council-*— say residing at Normanby—know about the merits of any case at Waitotara, or any part of the county, as well as the Road Board, whose members reside on the spot, .and ia composed of seven men, elected in the locality. It is high time the County Council was abolished in this part of the country, for we are out of the Provincial fryingpan into the County Council fire. Hoping you will find room for these few remarks in Saturday’s issue. —I am, &c., COUNTRY SETTLER.

A Wellington telegam dated 4th instant says :—Tho first sale of the Wairnate Plains will not take place till the middle of March next. About 15,000 acres, the survey of which is about finally completed, and a greater part of which has been finished some time ago, will be put into into the market, but the Government have not yet settled the exact locality in which the sale will take place. The Patea people have*asked the Government to order that the sale shall take place on the land itself, and by a Government auctioneer or Commissioner.

Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Fear Not.—Though surrounded by circumstances disadvantageous to health, these remedies, properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, dyphtheria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, or unwary. The superiority of Holloway’s Medicines over others for subduing disease has bten so widely and fully proved that it is only necessary to ask the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded round them be followed, no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. In hoarseness and ulcerated sere throat the Ointment should frequently be rub bed on the neck and upper part of the chest ; it will arrest the increasing inflammation, allay disquietude, and gradually cure. Well-dressed Men.—Among those habitual errors of conduct which are common in both careful and careless persons, not one is more often met with than disregard of the advantages derivable from being well dressed; yet whoever lives observantly in such a County as Patea. is soon convinced that this mistake is fruitful of mischievous results. All of us instinctively judge from first impressions; we proceed from the exterior to the interior; a well-dressed man gratifies our fondness for beauty and our appreciation of neatness; and there is no one, howe'vci- cynical or unobservant, but is pleased' when a well-dressed person, even if a stranger, passes by, and disposed to thifik favorably of him. This universal dispo ition cannot safely be offended. To be habitually a sloven is to constantly, though unconsciously, offend numerous persons. among whom the favour of some may be valuable; and therefore a shrewd man is not content to make himself neat now and then, but always will appear well dressed. He keeps his clothes in good order, and is careful in the selection of a tailor.

In bringing this maxim before public notice, R. A. Adams, Cardigan House,_ is gratified by remembering that the disposition of a great many of his customers to appear in public well dressed has been met by the combination in his goods of selection, material good fit, and low price. He obtains his cloths in the most advantageous markets; he employs first-class cutters and workmen: he avoids obsolete fashions; and he is content with moderate profits in the place of the exorbitant percentage which only a few years ago was universal, and still is frequent in the tailoring trade. His gloves, hats, shirts, hosiery, ties, and scarfs, are also such as will the most fastidious. Whatever experience, capital, care, and good taste can effect on the tradesman’s side, is done by R. A. Adams, in order that all his customers may realise the substantial advantages of being well-dressed; and that his efforts give satisfaction, is shown by the rapid and steady increase iri the number of those who deal with him. Attentive to the changes of costume necessitated by varying seasons, and of style'by the dictafee of fashion, R. A. Adams has now on hand a large and carefully selected stock of cloths suitable for all seasons.—R. A. ADAMS Cardigan House, Carlyle.— Advt.