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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2044, 17 July 1885, Page 2

Sir Jdlius Vooiiii defends his statement that the County of Wairarapa East had received upwards of £42,'000 during the past threeyears,bysupplying to a Wellington paper the following "The expenditure above described as subsidies to Counties includes all grants under Roads and Bridges Con ; slruction Acts, and also all expenditure under special votes of Parliament for road works in the various Counties, comprising .votes for' ordinary public works roads,. and also roads to open up lands before sale, and roads on goldtjolds," We hliould not have noticed' thin had not an attempt been made in another quarter to throw discredit on the itemburs of the Wairarapa East County Council who attended the deputation, and who did their best to place the local bodies fairly before the Government. On referring to the reports of the proceedings at the deputation we fail to find anything that support? the explanation of the Colonial Treasurer. It, of course, suits hii/i t.p mak,e it, but, unfortunately for him, it doeg 119, t very ijiaterially affect the position takeh up by' Messrs Maokay and Hawkins, because the amount that lu>3 been spent it) the County on Government roads is very harmless, as will 1)b seen on reference to a paragraph from the report of the Crown Lands Department, which we publish in the article above. SirJur/ius ( Yogel evidently forgot his priming, for 1 had ))fi added the amount received by the Highway Board under the Roads sn.d Bridges Construction Act, he would have been very nearly right; but on the other iiaiid, if i jie includes that and the amount spent on roads by the Government, he has understated tjje figures—a thing he could only do tliroiigfc knowing his subject.