FAST ASLEEP.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 7, 16 February 1867, Page 3

FAST ASLEEP.

The government of this Province, in addition to the Superintendent, has four town residents, representing the town of Wellington, for members of the Executive Council. Not a single member from the country has a seat at the board. Such a state of things is not satisfactory. There ought to be an alteration in this respect before the Council meets. The Superintendent has taken the Manawatu and the West Coast under his special keeping, but the Wairarapa is totally unrepresented in the Executive Council, The Wairarapa, moreover, is not fully represented in the Provincial Council. May it not be owing to this that justice has not been rendered to this district ?

We have not only a city but a sleepy Government. The Wairarapa is not only inadequately represented in the Provincial Council, and totally unrepresented in the Executive Council, but the few representatives it lias appear like the Government to have fallen asleep. With the exception of a few finger posts erected in his district the lion, member for East Wairarapa has' done nothing, and these may be either pointing in derision at him or they may serve as memorials of his legislative handywork. The members for the west side of the valley appear to be as sleepy as the Government, and both members and Government want arousing. One would have thought that the near approach of the next session of the Provincial Council would have been the means of awaking them, and it doubtless would have been had we not had also a sleepy press and consequently a sleepy public. There is some talk of abolishing Provincial Governments—ours appears to have saved the General Assembly that trouble. There is some talk of a re-distribution of the representation in the Provincial Council—the representatives we have do not act ih concert and they do not appear to act at all. There is a large amount of surplus capital at home seeking means for investment. What steps have been taken by the Provincial authorities to divert a portion of it hitherward 1 What have they done in the matter of the Wellington aud Wairarapa railway ? What have our representatives done, or doing, or purpose to do with reference to this important and much talked of undertaking ? The largo amount of capital which was offered for the Victorian loan affords a sufficient proof that had the necessary preliminary steps been taken, the whole of the capital required for our railway might have been at once subscribed. What then is our city Government, what are our district representatives doing in this matter ? Are not both fast asleep ?