THE STANDARD. SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1873.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 67, 5 July 1873, Page 2

THE STANDARD.

SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1873.

* We shall sell to no man justice or right: We shall deny to no man justice or right: We shall defer to no man justice or right.”

If the report be true that some of the members of the Road Board intend not to offer themselves for re-election at the Annual Meeting, the usual and most convenient method would be for them to announce the same in some public way, bo as to give the Ratepayers an opportunity of promoting the interest of other eligible candidates, with a view to their election to the vacant seats. The meet,

ing is fixed for the 21st July; and there is no time to be lost if the elective body are desirous of putting the right men in the right places. Besides, it is but a proper course to pursue; it is one generally looked for; and, we should have thought, one which retiring members would have been but too eager to adopt —to say nothing of the requisite acknowledgment of the wishes of the settlers in doing so. We hope, even yet, that something will be done in this direction; and that public raise its voice on the several matters of importance which require to be ably handled during the ensuing year. To leave the discussion of these things until the meeting day, and then to nominate and elect anyone who may, by chance, be in the room, —and that, oft’times, more from caprice or impulse that sound judgment—are among the many evils which arise from delay. Opinion may be divided as to whether any of the members forming the present Board ought to resign; but no one, we opine, is so very anxious to take up the cares of unrequited labor as to proclaim himself a candidate without being invited to do so, or, at any rate, not until he is tolerably sure that his offer of service would be acceptable.