OHINEMURI RIDING.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4239, 2 August 1882, Page 2

OHINEMURI RIDING.

(To the Editor of the EvßNi^r^STAßi) f >

Sib,—For some time past the editor of the Hauraki Tribune has seen fit to pitch into the members for this Biding, and hai accused them of neglecting their duties. He seems to have forgotten the fact thafct be at one time represented this riding, and that when he left the Coioty Council it was some £16,000 in:difct£l something like £9000 of which has been paid off by his successors. No doubt if that gentleman had been elected at the last election, this riding would have a resident member instead of two absentees. ■• But I fail to see how that would have bettered our position, foe «t one time we had two resident members, Sfelrthe ratepayers at that time were no better treated. In hiß last attack he says that, the County road through Owharo* has' had to be abandoned, and the road laid out by Mr McLaren taken to. Surely he forgot - that he is responsible for the road through Owharoa, as he was member at the time it was laid out, and if in the wrong place > he is to blame, and not his sucoesbrs. And no sane individual would hare _us believe that the old road is at all equal to, the new one. If C. F. Mitchell, when asked by many of the early .settlers up here to help them iv their endeavors ■to get local self-governmont, had done so, we would nevor hare been tacked on to the Thames County. And if he really _ believes in separation, why did he n<Jt have a petition forwarded' to the preset Parliament to that,effect ? as there can be „ no doubt but most; if not all, the settlers' iv this district are ia favor of separation. If the Editor of the Tribune would point out to the members for the Hiding any thing they, leave undone, I- hare no doubt" but that they will be happy to attend to it. But he must remember they are only two out of nine, and until such time as the roads through, the Biding are metalled, it will be impossible to keep them open for traffic during the winter months. This ought to be the work of the General Government, as it is, and - always will be, too much for any local body to do, whether. County Council or Highway Board, unless the revenue from - the riding is much greater than it has been.—'l am, &c, Settle*. Paeroa, July 26th, 1882.

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