COUNTY COUNCIL.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 429, 28 May 1879, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL.

To the Editor of the Patea Mail. Sib, —“ The times are out of joint,” and well might they be, when the County is driven to the necessity of putting such representatives as Mr Job Gane into the County Council. In the first place, Mr Gane is not consistent, for whilst strongly in favor of doing away with County Council altogether, and allowing Road Boards to do all the'work, he consents to bo nominated and elected as a member of the very body he would see abolished. Mr Honeyfield has, by retiring in favoi of Mr Gane, forfeited the good opinion of the majority of ratepayers in this County, and 1 think he will live to regret the step he has taken. Mr Gane, fearful lest the Council would eventually take the functions of Road Boards, has adopted the only means necessary to do away with the former—viz, becoming a member. This, in my opinion, will have the desired effect, as very few Councillors (not sufficient to form a quarum, at any rate) will care about listening to useless argument. Mr Gane might be a good man, but he is certainly! not suited to the position he has been elected to. Verily the Council will be converted into a regular “ bear-garden.” I have heard Mr Gane at Road Board and other meetings, and my opinion is that he will be a thorn in the sides of every Councillor. Work that should be got through in several hours, will be prolonged for that number of days, and up-country members may as well prepare for the worst, and provide themselves with town residence. Through all this, however, a faint gleam of hope is visible, and that is that Mr Gane will reform, and instead of keeping up his lion’s character, will become a lamb of the meekest kind. 1 hope so.—l am, &c., ASTONISHED.

(To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Dear Sir, —The question has been put to me —Do you find any wire from the reapers and binders come to the mill ? Enclosed are sixteen pieces, as found on the screen above the millstones, after grinding eleven sacks of wheat; many such pieces must pass between the stones, and into the silk, gradually injuring the machinery. Would similar pieces among oats.injure horses; and could not grain be kept entirely free from wire, if care were taken when thrashing? EDWIN PAYNE. Kakaramea, 26th May 1879. [Any person wishing to inspect the wire sent by Mr Payne, can do so by calling at this office.—Ed. Mail.]