The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. A MOUNTAIN IN LABOR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2137, 4 November 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. A MOUNTAIN IN LABOR.

The Upper Taueru Road Board is of an economical turn of mind, The total income of tliat body is not very startling when it has been totted up; in fact the Board was established merely as a sort of family affair, It is true that some elements have intruded themselves that are not exactly to the liking of the promoter of the separate institution, but lie still holds a fair amount of power in the Board, Things are, however, apparently not quite to his liking as he is striving after more power and influence. At the last meeting he" succeeded in' scor inga victory, for he got himself ap

pointed Collector, 'Some prudent members of the Board, however, beeame alarmed, and raised the question of security, and the curious section of the public willn'egret that the point was not settled there and then, What a blow it would be to the district if the Collector were to pack up his portmanteau and vanish, leaving only his' station to console the ratepayers. Seriously speaking, Is it not a trifle below the dignity of the position of chairman of a public body, to go hawking about its bills ? Of course, lie can do it if it pleases him. Some people do things of that kind from choice, or perhaps from habit. Rut if every local body in the colony were to follow suit, many an honest and competent clerk would have to go without his present bread and butter.