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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1794, 22 September 1884, Page 2

A carrier complains to us that be lias to go in and out of Masterton with half loads on account of the gap in the approaches to the Wuipoua bridge. He' informed us that he had applied to the county authorities to bow when the chasm in the main road would bo spanned, and that he was informed that " the county had no money." Now, this reply, if it wore given, is a very unsatisfactory one, The Council has built bridges before when it had no money. If, however, the County has ueither money nor credit its cbbo is a deplorable one. We are disposed to believe that the credit of the county is good, and that it is in a position to obtain tomporory advances sufficient te cover the cost of repairing damages at both the Waipoua and Waingawa, If this be the case wo think the Council is to blame by not at once taking vigorous steps to do the necessary work. The wool season is coming on and it is intolerable that wool drays and other vehicles should be blocked at the Waipoua. The work has to be done and every day's delay in doing it is putting the public to an inconvenience which is unjustifiable, If tho Waipoua remains unbridged the rates of carriage in and out of Masterton will be raised and the public taxed to the entont of several hundreds of

pounds, If the credit of the County is still good the work should be now in hand, and if it is not the County has broke down as a local governing body.

Our local contemporary is havdly fair towards the representatives of this district. In its issue of Saturday last it says :

" Coming nearer home to our own representative for Wairarapa North we find that the chosen of the people has been certainly making efforts in the direction of pleasing some of' his constituents, but up to the present, so far as we are aware, in no instance have they borne fruit. Tho new goldfield menaced by a native difficulty, is as much a phantom of the future as ever, and the sufferers by the seizure of tho Opaki railway contract have had the trouble and expense of attending an enquiry, but that is all the return they havo yet received for the labor and material that was pilfered from them by a Government Departmedt nearly a year ago."

The other day our contemporary very justly censured Messrs Perry and McKenna for the non-success of the new goldfield, and as to the Opaki railway contract, on Saturday afternoon we received the following telegram from Mr Beetuam :-- " Tho Minister ban decided to allow the men for the time worked betweon the eighth of November and the end of December, also for the timber supplied (Buruetfc and Yule) to the extent of £150," Comment is unnecessary !