CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2149, 19 November 1885, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To Editor,)

Sir,—On Tuesday evening last J had the honor of attending the meeting of the Borough' Council to represent, by a petition, the inhabitants of Kurupuni, against the action of the Council of late by' their intention to put In our minst that, which is permitted, would sdon have grown into an evil of fearful magnitude, but which, I am glad to say, by fclio effort put forth by the people, has been averted, as the Council lias, 1 am informed, determined to seek a fresh field whero to deposit their slum and filth. In sitting in the room while the business of the Council was proceeding I determined, as far as my reasoning powers would permit me (without prejudice) to watch, andby their actions test the borough legislators' qualifications, among whom were cockatoos, as one of them described himself of'that character, and other birds of a designation. One of those worthies seemed wishful to cast the stigma upon the petitioners that the petition was uncalled for, by saying that any lot of persons might get up such a petition as that. It is true they could, and they did, and they have obtained what they wished for—the preservation of their locality from pestilence and diseases. When action is being taken in the legislative house of the Colony, viz., the Parliament House, on important matters,-with reference to any particular locality or district, all members vote, but all of these may not be fully acquainted with the subject in hand, and may injure by their vote, rather than do good. Now, Sir, in the Kurupuni case it was not so; every member well knew the affair in all its bearings, and they have manifested, after viewing the movement of the people, a fair degree of common senso in complying with the prayer of the petitioners, I am, eU, • Thomas Witiiik Shcte,

P.S.—lt is probable, and possible too, that Councillor Hesaey does not belong to the cockatoo, tribe, but to that called the ground parrot.