TOWN BOARDS AND ROAD BOARDS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 26 April 1884, Page 3

TOWN BOARDS AND ROAD BOARDS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I was much surprised on reading your report of the banquet to Mr Tripp, to find such an authority as Mr Coltman, in proposing the toast of the Road Boards, stating that attempts were being made to do away with the Road Boards and establish Town Boards in their place. I should like to ask, sir, who has been attempting, or talking of such a thing as doing away with Road Boards ? I have never heard of any such thing, and I am certain Mr Coltman never has. Temuka or Wallingford has taken steps to get proclaimed a Town Board,and I hear that Geraldine town is likely to move in the game direction. But surely Mr Coltman must know that the establishing of Town Boards cannot affect the existence or in any way interfere with the Road Boards except within the boundaries of the Town Board, and as these cannot be of a liv.g i area than two square miles, an 1 must contain not less than fifty householders, there could not be more than one established in the Geraldine Road Board District and two in the Temuka District. I think, sir, that when Mr Coltman speaks of the establishing of Town Boards as an attempt to do away with Road Boards he is carrying things too tar and allowing.his zeal for members of the Geraldine Road Board to darken his understanding, and thus express himself in words without knowledge.—l am, etc.

Anti-Parasite. Geraldine, April 25, 1884. ERRATUM. TO THE EDITOR Sir, —In your report of Mr Tripp’s dinner the other evening, you make one of the speakers, in a most egotistical manner, say that he had 'never been put in a corner. This I have good reason to know is incorrect. What the gentle man really said (adopting a far more modest tone) was, that he had often been put in a corner. —I am, etc., Auditor.