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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 231, 6 August 1879, Page 3

|0 THE RATEPAYERS OF THE MASTEUTON HIDING of WAIRARAPA WEST COUNTY COUNCIL. Gentlemeu—it the request of several ratepayers 1 liavo consented to become a Candidate for the vacant seat in Wairarapa West County. I should have called a public meeting for the purpose of expressing my opinions upon County questions had it not been for the •xteut of the Hiding and the difficulty of getting the Ratepayers together at any convenient centre. I hope you will accept this apology. Thai; the usual course was not taken was through no desire on ray part to shirk a public duty, or a free discussion of County wants aud how they ought to he supplied, It is evident that County Councils are only in their infancy, and that they must before long become the principal administrative bodies of the colony. To them we must look ior the making and maintaining of our main roads, the supervision of all local works of magnitude,aud tho development of our latent resources, At present the great difficulty with which County Councils have to contend is the want of a sufficient revonuo for the purpose of efficiently supplying local wants, It will therefore be one of the first duties of Counties to urge upon the Government the necessity of supplying them with the necessary powers and means with which to carry out the important works under their control. Not only will pressure have to bo brought to bear upsn tho Government, but Counties will, before long, have to face the unpleasant duty ot becoming themselves rating bodies. We may therefore look with some degree of alarm at the amount of taxation to which wo shall bo subjected. Highway rates) are felt to be sufficiently heavy, but if we have in addition to these County rates, we shall have a burden greater than we can bear. To partially obviate this I am of opinion that Highway Boards, for tio most part, should be merged into the County Council?, We are manifestly over-governed, acd instead of having half-a-dozen small Boards, each with a separate and expensivo staff of officials, we ought, I bslieve, to liaTe one or two, flith a competent staff of men who could do all the work required for a fraction o{ irhafc it now costs. Comities cannot always live upon Government gifts, aud settlors cannot bear duplicate rating, lam convinced that a great deal more work can be done with the samo money by concentrating our efforts and by swooping away a great many intermediate and expensive bodies, If returned as your representative I shall support any action that nay be taken in that direction. I shall assist as far as I can to carry out the works already in h?nd, and shall feel pleasure in still further helping to throw open our waste lands by means of main roads. If elected, I hope, by a faithful and independent discharge of the duties •ottl&offiee, to prove myself worthy of your confidence. Sjl trust that on Saturday next you will show your interest in County Government, and exercise your privilege by recording your

I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, duncan McGregor, Masterton, August sth, 18/9. 218 IN BANKRUPTCY, WORKING MEN'S STORE CARTERTON. Jno. A. Edmuxdson, manager of Trustees in both Estate of George Saycr and John Smith, General Storekeepers, A GENUINE CLEARING SALE OF THE COMBINED STOCKS Of the above Bankrupts will commence on FRIDAY, STII AUGUST Offering oiu o! those bona fult chances that the inhabitants of Carterton and the surrouuding districts rarely have. The choice and well selected stock of JOHN SMITH Is entirely Now as ho was only six months in business. A PRICE-LIST Of this splendcd stock will be issued short, ly In the meantime the public are recommended to RESERVE THEIR PURCHASES and visit THE WORKING MEN'S STORE. CARTERTON. The fact that botli stocks are quite new Bhotild be a guarantee that the bargains to be offered are bona fide, and not made np of an accumalation from old established businesses The goods must be sold, and it is not the intontion of the management to puff. THE WORKING MEN'S STORE, CARTERTON, JOHN A, EDMUNDSON, 818 Manager. '/"ANTED.—A few original shares in the " Permanent Investment and Loan Association of Wairarapa, State cost price. MeKeever. 218 WANTED— ./I strong willing Lad, wh, can read and write. Apply to A. Fisk Tar&tahi Store, Wairarapa. IJIENDERS are invited for the Extensions to the Featherston High School on or before MONDAY, August lltli. To be addressed to the Chairman of the Featherston School Committee, All particulars may bo obtained from the Head Master, 218 Jg'OROUGH OF MASTERTON ELECTION OF COUNCILLOR. THE following are the numbers of votes received for each of the Candidates, Votes BISH, ALFRED 160 CORBSTT, J. H 84 DONALD, DONALD .. .. 102 Mr Alfred Bisli having received tho greatest number of votes, I hereby declare him to be duly elected a Councillor for the Borough of Masterton. ■ ' B, WItSONE, " . 11 ■ /Returning .Officer. .218