BUSH TOLL GATE'S

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2672, 12 August 1887, Page 2

BUSH TOLL GATE'S

■'. (To the. Editor.) Sib. —Allow mo through the columns of your paper to c.omment.onwhat;we call the evil doings of -those fortunate individuals whom through .their superior knowledge of your • language, we, through - mistaken faith have chosen for our/leaders, Mistakes and decayed .'management' have con--tinually- been the order of our settlement'since fifteen years ago -we first .putfcfbtih the bush; But.none so ■'damnhig.'as the'last';. a tojhgate/has .been:eredtc'd'm oul; very centre"to'.'th'e -great disgust .of the among whom some af leas't.remember of such things being practised'oii people in thoir birthplace",••b'ufc'-Bcarcoly would have thought of them being repeated in our adopted home. Sir, let mo explain bow this business is carried oh here, A ticket has been issued to each ratepayer, which he. must pro- 1 duco on passing this. structure. A clever invention of those dear creatures who .we thought at the time of their election would further the interests of the settlement, and who we did not put thereto drive trade away from our doors, .which wo now find is the case, .Much needed money has been left hero by drovers and general travellers, .who on theroad between this place aud.Ekotahuna made this their stopping place, but-since this J* pay and give, an account" business has been established have not and never will again "mako their appearance, as-Jong as another road is open, and consequently those settlers who before did business with the travelling public are made to suffer. How are wc to progress without trade, aud in twelve months, if we close ourselves in this manner, to wliat extent will it diminish the value of our property 1 If a settlor'sorids' a horsototho blacksmith by a child oi tho settlement, and if, being complied to pass this now invention, ho should . not produce tho passport of the" Mailriceville King," I scarcely ..think he would-be allowed to proceed-, Lasfc'oi all, I-may state that in' giving the keeping of the gate into the .hands ol the clerk for the' Board, instead .oi letting it to the highest bidder, ha; caused. a great deal of surmising that favor has. been shown. Now, altliougl there may be no foundation for this -. commeu't,ifc is- still not calculated tc -improve tho state of things here, Thanking you in anticipation .for. youi . valuable space,' 1 I am, &c, ■ Observer, Mauriceville, August 1. .'..-..