PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1414, 26 June 1883, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(PROM tiDRTOWHiCORRESPONDENT,)

Great satisfaction has been expressed by. the settlers at the acquieaence of the County '.Councils to.jtW foruiationj'of a local; Road District and Boartl. It now feats with' : out" representatives aud the others .mcpmiuittee; to satisfaotorily com*, plele the whole affair, Mastertou will lose some puiquisitea, onour. rates, such and an occasional £2O. or, ( whic'ji. (hey have now and then fprg«tjeii ; to t rei,urii to i us; but on the otlier have us perpetually f;ruw!in« and b)itherlog about, something or other.' vlii,fact, after, tbia. matter'is' completed^s\the Counoil will quite lnißsour freqiient pelilions and deraoiistratiuDsi; mto wero gan>e ! to haV« fought a'Boitd, hadthe County rtot it, Jtti'd'sliouid certainly have taken'advantage of Section 20 of the Road Boards Act, .1882j$tfich ■ refers to the' powers of, the Govflnibr ill council, . Although this Act gives, jayery aid In the formation of new districts,', this puiver should certainly nnt.be,,used too iroely. In a case like Pahiatua, which ii so to speak a peninsula, and only connected with head quarters by a strip of land one chain wide and 45 miles' long, a new Board and.Dißtrict should.net be reiused, and there is hardly a bettor, example anywhere of the necessity of such an act. Nor does it imply neglect on the ..part o( offiojalMr governing bodies 'if'S'diatrio! so situated-is inadequately^ But it is still our due to be allowed to exercise a local management if we apply tor it. At the same time if the Act were allowed to.ibe indiscriminately made use of there would be no end to sub-divisions, and, moreover, the power | jiy, it would only lead in many localiites'to .discontent and. constant disagreement in the matter of spending rates, wbioh being incited bj a knowledge of power would never occur if the aggrieved: parlies had no aHernative.but tbe> election of fresh representatives in the future, If rightly used the Act inußt prove to many tetijements m it baa done" to ours—extremely benefloiil. /If abused ( it, will f ' in" all probability jbe ' it hai stood ft* fire of many 'sessions, and rightly top,,. We hope to take advantage of the Boads and Bridges CoristruoMn Act next year to: construct' the second Tiraumea road wbioh is important l 'as opening up many sections already bought and a few which are still oper' H These latter are equal, in in the Blook,' and will be'MJr up without, doubt as soon as thercsW'iiie very remotest sign of a road to them.' ■ " v :