CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 196, 15 August 1874, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Uar columns are open, for free discussion; but toe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents.]

TO THE EDITOR. Dear Sir,—Tn the Poverty Pay Herald of the 13th inst.., “ Pakeha ” attacks Captain Porter’s proposition of reserving the Patutuhi Block for grass seed. Jt is very evident that -• Pakeha ” has stock to graze and egotistically wishes to do so at the district expense. Allowing “ Pakcha’s ” theory to be correct as the immense benefit derived from the stocking Patutahi, surely it were not an unfair division of spoil were the less fortunate, non-stock-owning community to expect some little gain from that rich block of country. If “ Pakeha ” and his grazing brethren would remove their stock about, the middle of October next, for three months it would then be three to one in favor of Dives. Hoping that Captain Porter will carry out his very just proposal in favor of Lazarus. —1 am, &c., Poverty. Sir, —We luckless Ormond people are comparatively prisoners now owing to the state of the roads ; but as the mail is not yet (thanks to the perseverance of Mr. Bidgood) actually stopped, we have the privilege of correspondence. Do you Mr. Editor happen to be able to tell mehow it occurs that last year (viz., 1873) at this season we had quite passable roads, at any rate from Waerengahika to Ormond? I believe the tender for keeping the road in a fair state was something considerably less than the stationery &c., expenditure items for the past year. If our worthy fellow-settler Mr. Saunders could only be induced to send a tender for repairing and keeping in order this piece of road as he did last year, the public would, I am sure, find the benefit of his (Mr. Saunder’s) experience and unremitting exertions. It is now an extremely hard matter to get draining done at all, and when it is procurable ’(.is at such a ruinous rate that necessarily everything is much dearer than hitherto. Mr. Editor that your kind intervention in publishing this, our grievance will in some way, lend to the redress of the same.—l am, &., Busy Body.