KURIPUNI RAILWAY ROAD.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 706, 2 March 1881, Page 2

KURIPUNI RAILWAY ROAD.

[To the Editor of the Waikarapa Daily,] •Sib,—Concerning the road to the Euripuui railway station,' may I again request you to allow mo space in your columns for a few remarks? I propose to consider only how tha Borough Council ought to.look at the question, I apprehend, sir, it will be generally allowed that in. allocating borough funds, works benefitting large portions shotdd have the preference over those benefiting only the immediately adjoining properties,. This work being one more especially "affecting the residents-in the southern portion of the Borough, let us consider what claims they have on the Borough funds. • Excluding main thoroughfares, such as Queen-street, Aiura, road,:'tipper Plain road, and the Manila- roads, which tend to benefit the "borough ■ generally,; and the cost of which should be a general charge, the local works executed in tho southern portion of the Borough'have been very trifling, and, in comparison with 'such works in the northern portion, nothing at all*" ■ ■-.■. This work will open .the thoroughfare from Soutlv'Masterton to, the rest of the world, and as such should receive tin first attention from tho Council, mor< especially as bnv district has certainly not received anything like its share of ex penditnre in local works, whilst largi amounts have been spent in the northen portion of the Borough, which, as leading to no districts beyond, cannot he con sidered as main thoroughfares at all, I noticed in one of your issues of somi weeks since that Councillor. Gapper wa reported to have stated that he oonslderei the improvement of Victoria-street of a much importance as this. Now,' Council lor Gapper in his private.eapacity doubt less well understands the benefit c improving Victoria-street; hut, if yon report be correct, it would have been we! if he, acting as Borough Councillor, an having a-voice in the distribution of til public funds, had not openly evinced tbi lie had not considered the question in partially. The method by which you tell usw might obtain this work—namely, by sul scrip'tiori amongst 'ourselves—would 1 very discreditable to our Corporah'oi Surely, if we pay borough rates we shoul expect, at all events, to get our mai thoroughfares made out of them. ■.?.'/::■ '„:! am, &c, '■' . '.-■' ■-.' Eatepayeb, Kuripuni, Ist March.

(To the Editor Wairarapa Daw.)

Sir,—l take strong exception ( to tl words made iise of by you in the footno to my letter in your issue of to-day's dat Which reads 'thus—" Our ''corresponds is too suspicious, altogether." It is tl first time in my life that I have been to that an .Englishman could exercise t< much suspicion in a preserving sense; that he could too well guard -those righ and privileges conferred upon him by t constitution of the Government of li country. I believe' it to be the duty everyßritigli subject or any other pera naturalised and and under British ra 'whenever innovations are introduced in our various assemblies of legislative actii contrary to- established. custom, wbi would appear to be .detrimental to tin rights and privih'ges beirifffrdly and fres enjoyed, to spoak'out,- and'protest agaii those innovations—and to maintain 1 position as ail elector and ft Briton, regard the footnotes of an editor' pf paper to persons' letters—except- in ca> where his opinion is asked on any .pat culav subject—to be uncalled for, and A quently put to. prejudice' the matt therein contained, .-...•• I was speaking with one 'of the me bers of our Borough Council this aft noon—one whom I take to be aslionora a man as any other member of that bo —and he said that he thought it a ga piece of presumption on the 'part of' Phillips to send, the pamphlet to I Borough Council in the first instance, I am, &c., Thomas William Shute Kuripuui, Feb. 28. • •