The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1884. A ROAD POLICY FOR THE WAIRARAPA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1828, 31 October 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1884. A ROAD POLICY FOR THE WAIRARAPA.

We are promised to-morrow a road policy for the Wairarapa, We do not know what this policy will be, but we have strong convictions as to what it ought to lie, There are districts in the colony which are Well supplied with roads, and there are others which are badly equipped with them. Wairarapa North is in the latter category, and it must lie a cardinal point of our read policy that a road system, which would suffice for the settled districts of the Middle Island, is inadequate for ilih undeveloped districts of the North Island, We have already hacl experience of several ;oad systems in this district, The Provincial system was theoretically perfect, but in practice it broke down because a dozen years ago settlers grudged Road Hoard rates, and as the Provincial subsidy was based on them the Provincial revenue went to other districts where settlers were willing to put their hands into tlieir pockets, The Cbnnty system wiisaliio theoretically perfect and ■jave satisfaction as long as the County authorities did not come into comjietiiion with the Road Boards as rate collectors, A double rate for road purposes was forced upon us by the notion of the General Government in withdrawing subsidies, and it is a natter of notoriety that the setters of this district have rebelled igaitist it. It is therefore obvious i hat a dual rate for road construction must not be a cardinal point in our future road policy. If is plain that settlers prefer paying rates to a Road Bmird to paving them to a County, and it is equally clear that they prefer payin" them to small Boaids rather than to large ones, We must therefore accept mail Head Boards as a cardinal point in our ltitnre road policy, hut in accept.iig this point it. is apparent that the buy of maintaining.., through lines cannot be relegated to small Road Boards. They can be trusted to make roads past their own doors but not to link one Road District with another. A. superior body for through lines is indispensable. Some people advocate a •pntral Koad Board constituted of the Chairmen of the various Koad Boards in the County area, but this would not work well in practice, If the live Chairmen of the. live Wairarapa North Road Boards constituted the superior body for this district there would be a danger of liree of them putting their heads together and appropriating the funds at their disposal to one half of the district leaving the other moiety entirely out in the cold We much prefer the existing County machinery to a change which would be attended with very serious risk and which would entail endless labor and confusion, We regard the continuation of a County system is another cardinal point in a Wnirarapa road policy, but under conditions which do not now prevail. It is essential that the respective functions of Counties and Road Boards should be so defined that thero should be no possibility of clashing, that it should;

lie impossible to turn 11 Rottd Board into a County or a County into a Roud Board, It is also essential that the County funds should not come out of the pockets of local ratepayers, It is quite enough to throw on local ratepayers the onus of maintaining their own local lines, Arterial communication should be placed on a different

basis, Take the Masferton-Waimuta road for example, is it only the Whareuma settlers who are interested in this line 1 Is it not of as much importance to the town of Masterton as it is to the settlers of the Whareama 1 Is it not a line in which even Wellington settlers are interested, and more than this, is it not a line in which the colony is interested, as being a mam feeder of a colonial railway. It is the duty of the Government to find the tumls for such a line. vVo regard it as a cardinal feature of a satisfactory road policy that a special provision should tie made for Counties which have to discharge important colonising functions so that they should not be

placed at the mercy of overtaxed rat epayers. The .Atkinson': Ministry endeavored to solve the local selfgovernment difficulty by giving local bodies unlimited power for levying rates, but as the people won't pay them the gift is worthless, We hopo Sir Julius Vogel will see his way clear to some better means of resolving the financial difficulty. We trust that

the President of the Wairarapa North County Settlers 'Association will not attempt to carry the road policy he is about 1.0 submit to-morrow evening. The question is of fur too great importance to lie lustily decided. He may by his eloquence carry a meeting with

him, and be authorised to represent his views to the Government, but unless his policy has some sanction from the local bodies of the district, and is in a measure endorsed by our lending men it cannot be accepted as representing; the views of tho Wairarapa North district. That the Bond Board policy to be propounded will be well worthy of consideration and will, help to form a public opinion amongst us on a vital question we donot. doubt. We trust Mr HaWKINS will not ask the mee'.iiig to-morrow night to endorse his proposal there and then but that- he will allow a few days for reflection and discuson. Then if his Road Board policy be adopted it can lie laid before the Government as an expression of deliberate public opinion which will be entitled to consideration, i A second meeting should be convened to enable a vote to be given, and also, to allow gentlemen like Messrs Beeeiiam and Buchanan M.H.R.'s who are in a position to speak with authority on such a question to express their convictions. We want a Boad

Board policy in the Wairarapa and wo

want the help of Wairarapa South as well as of Wairarapa North if we are

to exercise any substantial influence upon the Government to obtain one.

The new school at Pahiatua is. to cost i'2Bs not 1352 as stated in our last issue. The monthly mee'iii!! of the Masterton Masonic Lodge. E 0., takes place at the Masonic Hall, Bimniateivst. on Monday next, November 3rd, MrC. B Mni'iison is reported to bB likely to come forward as a candita'e for the Woodville Elding, in the Waipawa County Council. MrP 1 H. Wood held his stock sale at Ray's yards, on 1 lie Taratahi, yesterday. The weather was fine, and there was a very Rood show of horses, cattle and sheep. The Wellington Meat Export Company are ahout to resume freezing operations, a shipment of 7000 carcases of frozen meat being required for 1110 sb C'ptic, which is due from London towards the end of next mouth.

Besides the race privileges Mr F. H. Wood sells in Ids auction rooms, Greytuwu, on Saturdav, a lot of new and *econd hand furuitive, groceries, draper), and sundries, iu taut something of everythings Also by order of the PulVi: Trustee, jn the estate of R, Maine, six quarter acre sections near Feathersiou,

The Greytown MuHislSncioty's concert, which was ptistpmied 011 scconnt of " Ivo'a" tec'ure, cornea off in 'he Town Hall on Tuesday the 4th. Wa have no 1 the least doubt there will he a crowded 1101186, The Society's Picnic comes off in about a fortnight, La 4 year 11 was quite a aals day in Greytown 011 the occasiun of 'he piutdu, and we hope to see the bshib this year. It wou't be Mr Nation's fault if it isn't.

Dr. Spratt, coroner for the district, held «n inquest at Ray's h tel yeoterday momin>!, to enqniie in'o the death of George Wright From such evidence as was forthcoming there can he no do >bt but ihat in uolng down h h de out'ini; leading to the river bed, ills hnse, which was a yooug one, turned'suddenly off 'he track and vaps'zed ille tnp over a bvik some four fee! deep mlo the. river The nap fell aoiGPS the poor fellow and se'/jrely cribbed him His head was the only purt of his hotly thai wns in the water, The horse was drowned,

On Saturday next at 3 o'clock Mr F. H. Wood fells at Ins Auction Mart, Greytown, the billowing [iriviluoi l'i conuec iiu with ilia Wairarapa Jockey Clnli Spriiia 1116:1111', io he held on tlio 7ih November Grind Smnd, Bar mid Luuclieni Rooms Two Publicans Bom lis, two Refreshment Unnilis. Fancy Stall, Oitds df Riicea, Horse yards, Games, and Gaies.

It is expee'ed there will lie a great muiib'i' present at" Ws" lecture in Greynwn on Sunday mnl Monday niuli's. The tickets are off very rapidly imd <he Coinnti tee are making arrangemen's (or more seatiug acc<>rainiidnttmi, The private Band are practicing wune saced music and, if ihe wea her will keep fine we lielu'va i' is their liitemiun to play outside the HjII,

There was a very large aKondancn a' the tent meeting of Masteitnn Rcohahites last nißlr, C,R. Bro Eisthoje presided The question of increasing the subscription tn the medical officer of the ten' was discusser), and it was resolved imamuioiidy t > do so, and tn increase'lie fee (if (■inula members to the same scale as mimed members. The tent was reported still free from sickness, and in a flout ishinn B t" te financially and socially. Messrs Lowes & lorna hold at 1 p.m, to-morrow at their auction rooms an important and Unreserved sale of jewellery, Biock-in-tr»de, fumi lire and .nndriesby instruction from Mr A Bhli who is lea»iiu Miutenon, and who is 'herefore compelled to sacrifice liis wellknown and valuable stuck. There is no doiilii tlia l >bi< ea'e will a'tiact an exceptionally Ursje at emlaneo of mirchiisers. as the lots to lie nlfored are, from first to last of a genuine and substantial character, ,

Mi' 0, Smith nf the cash drapery awe, Queen street, ha* a new announcement in our advertising columns.

The headmas'or of the Masterton District High School, having found that a demand existed for the accommodation of pupih) whose homes ore at a distance from the town, haa made arrangements for receiving boarders in'o bin new and commodious residence which has just been erected near the school, and which has been specially deaigned for this purpose.

It is said that the County suspenders nre afraid tint their recent raid on Mr King will injure their ohances at the coining County election, as there is always a certain amount of sympathy for a mm who is nnjnstly assailed, and that this explains their action now in trying to wi'hdraw from the position which they took tp in the first instance, i

The firing for the Wainrapa H'fle Association commenced at Carterton to day The competitors have the advance nf" fine weather thouuh the wind was strong thk morning, About for'y competitors are on the L'Vnund. The Carterton match was the one on when our reporter wired us this sf'ern' on Anketell, Mas terton, was leading with forty-threa out of a possible fifty, A report was brought inti the Mastei' ton police this morning hy Kukti the Maori, to the effect 'hat the unoccupied h'ttlrl n;,' lately in use as a tnlluste keeper's office, was limned t» the g'"U»d, Tin* building wat the property i f the Waira« rupa East County O-uncil, and was uninsured The value of the building was about 125.

We remind our readers ol the treat an store to-nigh' at the Wes'eyau Church, A free invention is given to all'o come and hew one of <he be t leoiurers nf the day—the Rev. Mr Oliver, of Wellingt n —who delivers a lecture on awottl.ilv popular viz, Fa>her Taylor, the 15 stmi Sailor Preacher. The audience will have a picture of the humorous and the sublime put t efnre them that wi 1 arouse their semi'd i y to 'he utmost, and will ropiy them for the time devoted to 11 he lecure.

M*' W.vllie. the well known cartoonist, his just turned nut a net? batch <>f Ins celebrated Cnicitn<eß, Tl'o Iw repres ns the collapse »f >heWdpoua foobridge, the s-cond 'ducten Mr King i i 'in' character of L>rd Mwm'wn delyin.' Mr Ee'Si* wh i i< |n»"ri,veil in 'he girb "I Lord Annus The thi tl ami perti t|is die cleverest of the gioiin, por rays the editor "four local c n eno irnry ti-kini» up it o County sivike and bll wnmel by hi* iii"i'e partner, " H- will get stunu one of liese dnys. I k>mW he will 1" At the ordinary meeting of the Waste Lwds Bond yesterday inoruin.'. 'lto dates were fixe 'I >r ttie Forti-Mile Bu.h tindsdes. Tenders for Ihsb'"!? mast lie pepoiited n 1 the bind offioe, Wo'l-n-ton, hv 4 o'clock "U We iy, 10 h D-'ceui-t'er next, iiivl will be opened noil cmsidered hy ill- Bo«'d at the usu il keelm: next day. The deferied pavnien' lan Is will be oflered fur sale at the Ins ito'e. Masterton, and the Lind Offioe, Wei iog 'on, on Tuesday the 16 h December, In the event »i their b.ing tivo nr ranre I'tirch isera of the stme land, the section-" will be put up to nucti n at Ma<tertoo, on Th irsday, the 18 h December The cash sales will be held the same day.

The Minister for Lands, replying to Mr Bee ham, ye<terd*y, said that the Government 'ewitiiißeil the importance of opening up tie Block. Wairarapa, as soon as possibleMr Bee'ham, reports the Times, in the enrs" of the di-irict mil nay debate, expressed the opinion that next session fie peop)e oi the colony woqll 1-n k Well before they agreed t» the proposition as eml olieil in the resolu i m "f the 'l'rei iirer. To be fotowarned wag to be forearmed. As a member of the Northern Island, lie would desire to p -iiv out tlv\i there wereu-i dis rot milwiys in thiß island. Ha inijht say 'hat the dipnoi he represented had raise 1 a loan of £SOOO for road purposes, and why, be would aslt, whb nut tha' rtiatrici cnsnlied so far as railway purposes are concerned. Parenthetically, lie.would say that the terminus of the railway in this district was in a blind uully, bin if the Pub ic Works Department lnd gnne a li tU farther by some eiaht ui les, they would have had a good 'erminus and would have benefited a large tract of coun ry. He considered that it W"uto he the duty of the House t > wa ! ch #s7 orefully du ioa the receu the ao ion of thu Go'emaieu , nml if the<e actions were Calculated i» improve the resources of the ciun'ry, he w aild wil : iitjily support the arrangement which miylit be entuied inti.

The pet fee ion of Hardening is shown by the way pjople select their seeds and hy their endeavours to get only the purest and best varieties. It cannot be denied tint " Sutt uis" s>-eds sthnd pre-eqiuent in the huiticultural v/orld, These epeds cun now be obtained from 1 heir local agents, Bapp aud Efare, from whom 811 ton's litis, and all par.iculars can be obtained. t-Awt,

After several yoirs toenence in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejolin and Hon, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a loffer price thau that asunllv paid for such watches. It ia only b) thu judicium dl\ ialun of lubor and by the tnanufnocu e of large qu intiti'-s on a uniform plan, that we are enabled to mopt this want, We liavu now the pleasure of introducing our Six .Guinea Hunting Silver Lever, This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, iirnl accurate,fu.fila, all the requirements uf a pocket timekeeper, A written guarantee for two y?ars will be given with oacli Sent by post, aenurely paokeil, on leoeipt ol Post Ollioe order or cheuue.—lAnvr)

Flies a.nd bugs —Miotics, insect?, roaclus ants_ bad'biißS, tats, mice, gnph/rs, jio't nhbirs oleirjil nut by " .Rough oil Hats 7Jd. Jluss iSOo,, 3yJuuy, Gjaera Agents .

Weii's " hougu os Corns", - Aik for Well's "Rmgh' ou Cnns." 7J3, Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. I orns, wariH, Imii'iins, Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Apents.-rtuvT,