Waitoa Drainage Matters.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4481, 28 October 1909, Page 2

Waitoa Drainage Matters.

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Sib,—Permit me to use a little of your valuable space to once again comment on the above much vexed question, I think I am right when I say that many of the sound thinking ratepayers on the Waitoa Estate, have grown weary of endeavouring to suggest a means of rectifying the many blunders that have been made by the powers that ruled on the last Board, aud that it was owing to the unfactful doings of that Board that the progress of Waitoa drainage has been seriously effected taud interfered with. blundering and wrongdoing has been perpeirsted by a fifiFtqjn clique who have neither brains nor experience, and are also wholly devoid of the main essential which all public men should be well possessed of (high ideals and a wide sphere of thought) instead of what has been prominently brought under our notice by the past Board (three of its members looking out for first benefit from the proposed Henry Scheme) and Mr Editor, I say, is it little wonder that npw i|B, who have intellectual freedom, and men hjiye the progress and development of the district at heart, have formed very strong opinions of the actions of the powers that ruled on the last Board. Now, sir, a stranger coming into the district, and listening to the silvery tongue of the late Chairman, would likely be carried away by bis jparblings, and wouid likely pla:e his jCr#4 e /ftf e ju feis hands; but how disappointed ftp bf after be found out wM sort of» gentleman ftp * nd how utterly inexperienced be was in the matter of land drainage, I affirm Mr Editor, right now, and I think that Mr Henry is now of the same opinion, that it was madness to encur the liability of close on £3OO in engineering, and that the drainage of Waitoa would have been Jjefter achieved if the teaching and pf pbfi whole scheme, as laid qyu Mr* jm<j which has itself tftqsro.qgMyknqwn to $]J whq have had anything iWMio with the Waitoa Estate by it# effectual working, and which working hss bten carried out by the aid of i's accredited agents in the shape of the present train#, which have been cut in accordant with the natural Jay of the country, fie owe the success ( qf,t}hat scheme to a nan who has always Cnaeayoy'lp^J' o follow what nature has iW.fefelhSfA 1 W mtih fc te lS ‘heiam rinp| emvpms the ultfiate success qf <wampg e scheme f<f any area. ’ ' ’ of tiat highly intellectual and ft-rtwy* frqwd. in moving to confiscate eftn fpftds fqr purposes, calls gtffiqg comment and naturally actufea' a sane man to the

belief that, we ywit a man v, .th more ability at the .ead of our drainage affairs, a man Wo on taking office will immediately Jet about freeing the of the ftike County Council aud [iSt'that body g on with roading works as qbipkly as Risible. Goodness knows, we' baVe fteei hampered long enough ftete of affairs UlltWt.tjm.Winafcfe helping tq .prqlpqg , put sii fieri rigs by thp}r 'pq,’mip.lified tyions.' Spme nptps oq the mrpgresa ofloqdew praiqagp iq et h°ds, 'w,itft reference tq conspicuous .cuuWhWfby *h° natural advantages \he .gfiinj by following the No. 1 and No. f iifpaarains throughout, I have no

I ttciunceu d j iae late rh», '’manmod in this I have not the sliwhtA<i, r u bt that he will have the support rf* 11 those , wh ° h ° ld Property F er reac “ f>B °* the area, but rateoavi’ ' Jeware » these precious notes nrfTwfcrfhas stopped the progress of the drainaJ A >toa to-day and have absorb 7?eftl )e w hole of the time of the what is worse still, have f £303. I think “unsr^t^factory state?,' hipurs .mist appeal to yoq pqo and r' A r? gomg tpbp cpntent tp und#° a qqtber tenq of this waste of this stognent hoqndaiies of our

ftfcq. fir qre we going to wherewithal to effeot caonamy ? No man with any s Ise of right wIU again take on such a jpel of incompetent men as Messrs fsney and Co., for have they not ' unineered over our affairs long enough ( id that to our soi /ow. No, ratepayer#. It our bounding duty to put in three wql work with honesty of purpose (ind fa* w tHp 'general good of the drainage of the Waitoa Eitfkte, And I Irust that w« will npt he parted in this respect. Thanfaq? yon, Editor, for Meowing me so rquch of yqur valuable am, j RATBPATJSR. I