TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 17, 27 April 1867, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

X.Y.Z.—(Greytown.) The Greytown belt is 4 J chains wider at the back of the town acres and extends from the Moroa Plain down to the road leading to the Waiohine bridge. Mr. Carter is the sole trustee, but there is no reason why an act should not be passed vesting this property and the reserved town acres in trust for the common benefit of the public of Greytown. Amicus.—The Superintendent stands in the position of a second chamber, and holds his office by general, as the members of the Provincial Council do by local election. He is the president of the Executive Council, and ought, in its deliberations, to have an original and a casting vote. It will be his duty on opening the Council to state what are the measures the Governmentintend to introduce. It will be also his duty to give not only his “ministers ” but his own views on the state of the Province and its present requirements.

A Faumee.—(Featherston.) The question whether roads should be made by a rate at per acre, or a rate on the value of the land, was long ago discussed and disposed of by the Provincial Council. Mr. Bunny can throw no new light on the subject. Undoubtedly, land abutting on main trunk lines ought not to be exempted from taxation. The bill introduced by the •Government on the subject was rejected on its third reading by the vote of Mr. Wallace who was told if he would oppose the third reading of the bill, the opponents of the measure would support him in bringing in a bill imposing a general tax on all lands .not contributing to the maintenance of district highways. They did nothing, and did not intend to do anything of the kind. We shall return to this subject.

A Friend op Education. —The Education Reserves were advertised to be leased ; whether any have been or not we cannot say. In one particular instance we know that a party was prepared to erect a four-rail totara fence round one of these reserves, and pay a rent in addition equal to 10 per cent on the present value of the land, for a seven years lease, and that his offer was rejected by the Provincial Secretary. The subject ought to be enquired into. J USTICE. —One of the reasons why so little public money has been spent, and is being spent in the Wairarapa is because the land-owners have not taken advantage of the grants in aid given by the Government to District Road Boards." We haye been creditably informed that £soooof public money wouldhavcbecnspent at Featherstou, had it not been for the course adopted by the Road Board there. Volunteer. — How Colonel Haultain has itturncd to Wellington we shall probably soon know whether the resignations of the Volunteer Officers of this district have been accepted. There has lately reigned a silence on the subject which, to say the least, is suspicious. D.D.—(Otaki.) We shall be most happy to receive your promised hints on the subject of Fanners Clubs, or upon any other subject which you may favor us with.

St- Crispen. —We have received a letter, bearing this signature, in answer to a letter, signecTPeter Simple, which appeared in Wednesday’s “Advertiser,” with regard to the Grcytown School, and we must state, for once and for all, that we decline to publish answers to letters which appear in any other Journal