THE LATE MEETINGS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1245, 2 December 1882, Page 2

THE LATE MEETINGS.

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Sib,—lYoni'the;repqrts pf.tho speoohes at the late meetings.: it appears .that on both aidei of the questipp at issue vara to be found: advocatea for Rratiting legislative poworj : , to ; County Counoila. The suhjeoti for which these powers are claimed are stated to be fencing, drainage, branding,.licensing dogi, rabbits; ; and aheep ear-taarhs. No# can any one give a' single valid MMori- why oiie law .on each of these subjects: banuot-be made applicable as at : present, to the. whole colony ? .If the [existing laws relating to them, are incomplete,'; surely *wo hare ample ' and:\ sufficiently,' lavmaking machinery ;ip L the'< Parlianient of |thf colony to;amend Ili6m. The necessity of frequent referent to-Wellington (if the charge ii true)'mult'ba owing to defects, not in ths'laws; themselves; but in the administratitfa'of them. County Councils can rnklte their oWn "by-laws, that ought .to be 'enough' for ;Most of us have heard of jhe.frog who. puffed himself out to such'ah. extent' that he at laif persuaded himself ha must be a bull, and bow he thereby'came ; to l j(riet If amalgamation were likely to, make U9 so conceited w to aim ;at ! restoring a kind of provincialism (a costly form of'government already tried jn the .baiance and .found wanting) we Bhp!uld;'be:better without. it. • Although union is in my opinion preferable to two.counties of North and South, the. i'njudicipUß .of. some of its advocates'*will-teti'd' Wreconciie'one to the latter .alternative, if that should be 'dflcided.Uß^o;,L^;;;i^aa'i-;;£;)/ laraJso., J. Yahniihb Smith,