AROWHENUA TOWN BOARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1741, 24 May 1888, Page 2

AROWHENUA TOWN BOARD.

. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Will you kindly give space in your valuable paper for me co correct a few statements which’! saw in your issue of the 19th inst. in*. *4 subheader headed “ Arowhenua Town Board an article which you sentoutto the p'ublic that is incorrect. It has no jfoundation what* ever. First, you stats'tbaVthe ratepayers had just cause for complaint^That I deny; and further on yon say that the Board in j ured one of/, its 'ratepayers, and that 1 also deny, it was the bt|er way; the Board favored Mr Fletcher in allowing: his name to,go into the hat to give him a chance to get the work, as his tender wee illegal, his cheque hot being endorsed according to the specifications.] (In reality there was only one tender which was legal. The cheques may not bare been worth .. a penny, eo far as the Board knew, and if Mr Fletcher bad got the contract he r would have kbown that the specifications( were no good, becanse the Board had-.v! broken them, and be might'have laughed at them. So, Mr Editor, there w&a no ' real cause for the ratepayers to complain - about the tenders, neither wisthere any justification for the article 1 “referred to, : which was a censure on the Bonrd.v For;..; myself, I ash truly sorry ! for .the loss- of -i such a friend and willing assistant as you were to me and others Vih forming :• Arowhenua into a town * district; but I suppose people change with the times. . 1 have heard that , an editor has turned into a lawyer, and is giving advice gratia • in the street—not in: the town the advice. alludes to, for it is Arowhenua in which the bone of contention is, and\<the none is wood and iron, and it is put across the public highways, or roads—and the advice is not to remove It, as the* Board has no power to enforce the removal. My advice is for thorn to get the Gaaatte with the Governor's declaration' in it and see what be Bays about all the land within the north, east, south, and'west boundaries, and that there shall be five, members elected to form a Board to do. .the business,, and there is not (be slightest doubt but they will do it.—.l am, etc., Q. EpWRLBB, , 8.G.G., i.rowheeua. Arowhenua, May 21, 1886. .