CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1563, 19 December 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To ihe Editor,

Sib,—ln your leader ef yesterday you pay an unmerited compliment to the Chairman of the Masterton Road Board. To the late chairman of the County Council will tho honor be due

of having brought about tho suspension of the Counties Act j but in Mr George Boo'tham's absence from the country I decline to discuss the question, but should he horoafter elect to throw down the gage I shall be ready to take it up,

With reference to the sub-divlsioa of the Masterton Road District, so far from looking with dismay to the result, I regard the movement as a healthy sign of the inherent vitality of tho Eoad Board system and the natural outcome ,of the increased settlement of the country. I trust that to compare tho group of coming ftoad Boards to doughty Highlanders standing shoulder to shoulder will be a more ; appropriate simile. than your favorite Kilkenny cats.

Those wore indeed halcyon days, when Mr Bennett was Chairman, those were the years of fat kine, the times of goodly prices and rich subsidies, Mr Bennett's lines were cast in pleasant places. I envy him his years of bursting barns and golden sheaves, But tho lean kino have eaten up the fat kinc, property tax in placo of subsidies, with County rate to intensify the hardship of low prices of produce, and general stagnation of trade, lam quito in the dark as to what is meant by "Slaps at outlying districts," but if there aro any settlers with whom my sympathies more especially Ho, it is with those in isolated and remote parts who under a larger diffusion of the Road Board .system will be* more thoroughly .represented, and more effectually provided with roads, I am, 4c, Edwin Meredith.