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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 31, 1 March 1873, Page 2

The visit of the Provincial Secretary, at this juncture, will be productive of good, no doubt. The members of the Road Board, as the only public body here, have also rendered good service in communicating with Mr. Lusk upon such matters of public interest as may have come under their notice ; but w r e submit that that course is eminently inconclusive of practical results, and unsatisfactory, in that the discussion of questions of import to the District is confined to the few w r ho know’ all, as against the many who know nothing of what is being done. Elsewhere will be found an epitome of the business done at the Board Room on Thursday last; so far all is well; but there are others which, if the people do really wish to see settled —if they desire to have the promises made by Mr Lusk at his last visit fulfilled, —should be taken up by themselves, and practically work out a very trite axiom, “If you want anything to be done, do ityourself.” There is the Fencing Act; Quarantine ground ; Sheep Inspector; Pilot; Harbor boatmen, beacons, and other improvements ; the disposition of the Government paddock ; the Burial ground; the location of Immigrants; the appointment of a Polling place, Lock-up for prisoners—the present arrangements, being a disgrace even to drunken civilization, —and even including those matters already entertained so far by the Road Board, they are necessarily outside the pale of their functions, and possess no more value than if discussed by any other tw r o or three gentlemen in the community. Therefore we urge upon the people to invite the Provincial Secretary to meet them before his departure, if he docs- not leave in the Comerang to day, aud ascertain for themselves what they are all longing to know.