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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2140, 7 November 1885, Page 2

(Tq the Editor.) j SiR,-Trlt lyquld be laughable, were it j not a pifcyable spectacle, to see % lament able igiierance shown by boijib publuriiieri, ao far as tho simplest p'ublip matters are concerned. Ifc'is not-the'first' ' time, and 1 can safely predict it will hot bo tho Itibi; tjn>e, if tliey continue to be guided by " the bjindleadfng tlio l)ljijd,:' that the'Eketilliuha people have ton ishingly queer (to use a mild expteSsioii} atafcpijtenfcs, At a moetine recently held .- in EkeMuna tluit lbhdthg ligh't Jfri! j Anderson, directed attention to'a certajii | sum of moiity borrowed by 'tins Council, "t UljfJflC |!}'e find Bridges Coniftru'q- . | bion Aot,"fov Qxpendituve ofipjo Bketa.' -. lumga-Tiiiui road, which fa'not on 'tlft said'road."(?) Would Mr Anderson b'q fqirjso} to' learn tliat fho Mariawa |tidge • is oh tl}e said i'oad," and' tljat thf| lrjonly nas borrowed for tliat san)e bridgo? tPiierp • • nay be sonic bvjb MrjAnjjer- ' »n failed entirely to the 'trijg i°s}ti(jn r If I aj'n nop mistaken, thij 'klicifloi vyhq n)ore immediately - i ents this' portion of the Alfredton r'i(j|bg' tow attention totliis matter many months fjince, The same gentleman, in speaking ill sijppqrt of ft Sflmrnto Board, fof pketahuna-, stated tljat they l|acj nothing common lyitli Alfredtqri.' IJ.ere aaaitj hg shows ignqranoc qf bntlj w d w h el | t mention tfe't iiketaliiina is, unci must bq. ■ pecuniarily lntorested in having a good . road through tho Mangaono-Plock from Alfredton, and that Alfredton can join hands in the sanjo interest, I thinli-,1 • ' have said enough. In short/ without) the Msngitoh'e Block and' Alfredtort, : Eketa« hunawbuld'be a..sorry place.'- Sirica had rigen enqrmously in yalue there, I .' This is another of Mr'Anderson's reasqnj,' and if he really believes such' nqnseim he mu?t b? ivanting in qrdin'arcl coromqn sense, Mr jaylip fwrpd penai? ation on tho grounds that "he dw not like playing second fiddle to Alfredton.'! For candour this must, oe approval, 'out on public grounds it is questionable. If a separate Board giycs these men first fiddlo. by all means letlhehj'havo there are more obstacle's than the site of the,board's offico operating against thogq gentlemen playing first fiddle. MvSyvern- • sou complained of certain actions of the present Road Board, but failed so far as I know, to state what tfocso are, and I would ask Mr Syvernson to say if lie is aware of one action that had lint the full" and entire approval' of tho Eketahuna members. Mr Von Reden is reported to have Bpoken in favor of tho Board as at present constituted, with this distinction however, that tho. office of tho Board should bo removed to Eketahuna. Well this can only be looked upon from herd audacjfluq proposal'''of meeting, and/as some one has already remarked, he little' knew the Alfredton - people, and as little did ho consider' tho ■ injustice he proposed to perpetrate. To illustrate this, 1 many mention that the office at present stands in tho centre of the settled portion of the Road District 12 miles from Eketahuna, and about the same distance from Messrs Warren arid-' Bowlings properties. Moreover, thoW'' tqtal fates alj along the pne. side, that is, towards Eketahuna, cannot much oiccee'dj if it does so, a fourth \}f itli'o ibforrates'fqr the district. In fact, three settlors' oil this side pay as' much as all those on thS ' other' side put together. JTo doubt, 'it would be satisfactory (?) for tho Alfredtoh ratepayers to place the management of tl(oir,|!ih?'in|o the considerate hands of thos^payingtljdpiMqiiffh, ■ To 'Conclude,, the liicdniprehensiblo aspect in the entire agitation for a Road Board is that fclje leading agifajiors" resident on the main raid (40 mile bushf and rotjuiring nq except pefhmS ■ one man, and Jje took 'goo#, number one, in so faj-as to gei'the'Alifreiiton Board to make him a'road' before he agisted separation', If this, 1 therefore proves anything, it is this.'that, the pro' Sent pogrd ha? done well fqr those in the Mangaone Block really ' requiring roadq,' . and that it is pnly a few, ambitious,of' a momentary public position, who are the • agitators., ■, \ I'ain, etc., , . ' ' PuKEIOI, ; :