THE COUNTY QUESTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 805, 28 June 1881, Page 2

THE COUNTY QUESTION.

[To the Editorpi.the PAayJ '-- jSm.r-Tlie' question, of )he union of the].) ; two counties, viz M 'East and West-Wahw -4 rapa, seems to be now a question for our thj»e,wb,< oppoVe'd • if 'that' no advantage' wojul'dj.be'.'gainea/'bysucb.;.iO union: I was one'-who 'forniei'ly favored two counties. I have now altered my . opinion in this respect, and think no per- - son could say I-am-wrong .One of my reasons for injthe first instance was that ((a?' vantage would*.be'd'evived;froiiivi ; aiiway 'V communication and consequently'lands so \'t situated would not be caMupllrijtb pay a '(', railway tax/'-'We now find we ;have to '' (pay as muoh for the railway as'those who have a direct benefit, without getting any thing .whatever, even to !decrease the enormous expense of getting/ 1 goods by /, water. The cost of freight .from ;Wellington.to Castlepoint by water.is about three ■times as much as it is from LyfeW to

Wellington. '[ -It the two/counties were united result, - like to see the road metalled. ' i GojodsthenWbuld beewnedich'eaperto , Tep/iu than they, can now be dope by ( '■. water,' and/very v would 'send by water" (whiobi'''6ccasions < risks) if they cp,uldsen| j. at Mri%g highV j ! advantage .would boigajne i d. l by .j[) largervooundil. A bet|ervclasß "6f'm'(!n'"v would offer themselves as .candidates,.. i, Ag'ajn, one Bet of ofnoiakwould do the, ; work of both, .thereby, sufflv v : ciebt to erect*a small| bridge or'da 'some / 'qther'ußefulwor'k''every : year,^ v -' *• A '' Let )Us-iiopef some one,will J be < l)olc] enough' ooike forward at the neweleolQii,. Q and bring tbiaspttefj prominently for- / ■'* An-mt s!!l'j::iG.:iol:i>l'^' 1 lam, &0.., ; .: .v .-,. /. <>;,