HARBOUR BOARD REPRESENTATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 16 May 1901, Page 2

HARBOUR BOARD REPRESENTATION.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir,—l should like, with your permifsior, 'o refer to U.is question. The Inglewood h'ecord the other day referred to the New Plymouth Hmb/ur Boird members " as a clique which wns r-vidf n'ly not prepared to recogr.isw the principal of reps mtation with taxation," and siid 'the country setters mu-t take ac'ion to demand th ir rights" in the mitter, so tHat country interests may not be thwa:tel by Government nt>mir:ee» whose propertits are H'ua'ed in New Plymouth." Now, sir, I do not live in a to vn and pay a three shilling wto. When a paper wi-1 stoop to such misleading statements it surpasses rven the chairman's re o'ution to di-mit-s the po)r work nao, becm-e the Pand pomp, which t^e

country m-lobars pu ; therp, •von'fc work After two and a-half yetrtj' trying, with the Enginefi' running up and dorm coding .£6O to £7O a trip, the ctmrmm has ] st his patience and th« foot men have to sulfur, Now I happenec to be there one whole afterro-'n wher nei her tbe Engineer or the chairmar otiU Btart, the purop, and they finally said we'll leive is till to-morrow. ] cd'ed (ho Fireman and told him what to do, at d they were nbh to start in fiva minute, Bfca-ue the pior nominprs w-.n'c ponde■ to overyone like je ly fi-h they are ti he uot rid of and the country number? are to d ; rfct the sind pump costing „£lO a d-y. This representation qu°sti >n is like climbing up a ladder to tee 'he xr.on. Men who are cinfid n*. in 'he i'l-tica of their CKnse and no 1 - afr id to ■h nip r oi what they know to In rifrlit do.'i'fc suit s-n,e people and this is the causa of all the verorom and spite'ii' abuse in'mdcd to misloa I the ratepayers. The same thin? is being d-ine eg.v.dirg cnversioi of and false -t-itsmen's hased upn unsiu'horised lo ters r-ro b'irg nrde to m's'cad the r.itepayor". Tin rom'neei ara misre-p-ere..ted in over/ way, no nm-te-vhit you say or d i s->roe ssjfi-h mo'iv> i-j iraput. dt > you, Why don't those \v' o make thesa misi'ep'G-ecta'ions poi t'-ut the mi ney p>id ti the Eim-n-or ti ro'ro all the way from Timaru o wnil; thn F.ji e*nan or any other •ran ronl i pass ju«t a-: we 1, each trip cost'll2 .£35 fot a coup'e of hours «orlr, hat is the way the r. on y goes. I hi kif iLie Chairman sn ; hi j followers "ad to p-y r £3s for two hours w rk

out of their own pocket', they would i"t spend it. no freely. Mr. is »rit»ne to i.ve y 10-alb >dy in TaraTiki •nlvinj th. mto p ssn re c o'uticn in favor f «bnt he call- fair repes ntatiorj, but o oo'ild not got a se-tt; on the Waitara Harbour Board by seven vo'es to two. I l ' r Mie in f ormafcioii of taxpayers I may s\y (hat th-<> valuation of mr p orcrJ.y in Nay P ym<mth is £lOl2 ; VVaiara West. Road District, £1129; Tftnn Couri'y, £961 ; and I should i ■'o t • nslt if Tam so lifeo'y to to hui-drfn mvsdf wi'h ad' i i nal rao* as VI. r. Hisneitand his frien lf! won 1.1 try "o make iho ratepaym b lieve. 'Mr. Hignett t-lks about country members, of. mi 'ell 'ho f I',-n rs he doe> n >t mi'k my co ' S and lives i i town. Is th : s a Farmer/ Unii.n ?—I am, etc., L, SiUTE^