PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1696, 28 May 1884, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(pßoii our' ow;n .correspondent.) According, to your report of.:.the last County ■ 'specimen of the j&jMl august, body: conpublic? ; business i has J come to light. Cr Meredith; elicits-;the .facts that for the past four years the tolls -collected at thi& ferry have been illegal, because' the/,County, Council "has not; complied witH the' Acir-in not letting th!e ferry by tender from year to'yeai, Have we not a good case, if-we demand our imoney, back? Afc : w

shall be justified in using: the ferry tree from charge until tbe 39th of June, when the -ferry will be legally let. At any rate, wo are going to give it a trial. Wo quite appreciate the way the squatting has been, conserved in the new tariff, and also the delicate manner in which they "have.given the present ferryman an. extra three weeks, which would have been three years or until the bridge is completed '(which-at the present rate of progress will he an indefinite period); •■'lf wo had not stirred the mutter up, like the poor widow. But the County, Council instead of giving us justice, might as well have let the tarili alone! Why should we have.to pay every time we cross 1 Why should not once a day be sufficient, Had the Manawatu upper ferry been on a wool, road or. light in the track to a saw mill that we know of,' the charges would have been reasonable if not abolished, altogether like certain toll gates that we know of. And so the staff is to cost £SOO this year as they don't anticipate leaving so much public money to waste. The reason is the Government are going l to make roads themselves beause tho County system is too expensive, We get our information from the fountain head—Pamatua. :'' " ' Monday, 26th May, 2884. ;