The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1875.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 247, 13 February 1875, Page 2

The Standard AND PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE. (PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1875.

“ 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.”

Our Waiapu correspondent says, that a Court House is be built at Waiapu ; well, we doubt not but that such a building is necessary for the public convenience and for the proper working of such departments as the Government may have in that district; but this brings us face to face with the unpleasant fact that our own necessities have not yet been attended to. - We are not aware that any money has been voted for the Waiapu Court House, but we are not going to complain on that account ; there are very many things done by the Government, iu the shape of money expenditure without being voted, during the recess that were never contemplated by the House of Representatives during the Session, and, although the Waiapu building maybe a necessity, we would point out that there are others still more pressing, which involve obligations that ought to be seen to without delay.

It is not difficult to see that we allude to the oft-mooted question, the public buildings at Gisborne, for which a sum of £4OOO was voted on the estimates last year. It is to the last degree, unsatisfactory to know that we cannot get any definite reason assigned for the delay that has been caused in this matter. Some time since we heard that steps were being taken here for the preparation of rough designs to be submitted to the Government, with a view to bringing the subject before them iu a more practical way, but with what result is not known. Since then we were informed, on reliable authority, that the plans and specification were in progress in the Public Works Department, and that tenders would soon be called for. The delusive hopes held out to us during the last six months, have not been realised, and we are drifting towards the end of the recess, when, if something be not soon done, the vote will lapse, and we may not get the item re-voted. The agony one has to endure in the present Court House, between noise above and below, effluvia of many combinations, and an utter absence of all accommodation, is enough to drive any one mad, who is not philosophically resigned. We fancy the Government must have been full aware of this all along, by the somewhat unwholesome combination of Law and Physic they made in the appointment of the present permanent occupant of the Magisterial Bench.