PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2983, 22 August 1888, Page 3

PAHIATUA.

' (From a Correspondent),' Sinob my last-letter, both Messrs .Godfrey and, James, the .contractors M the buildings'of Mess'rs'Orc'we and iStewart, have started work, and both buildings are now in course of erection. The Town Board havoalso lot contracts for foot paths, and the workmen, are now busy constructing them, ' ; ''' t( ' ' Mr Elliott, saddler, of your town, opened his branch establishment bent on Monday lust, under the management of Mr Fred, Vile, This will satisfy a long felt want. The new County is already bringirig its'troubles'. Up to the present it has been carried through by the cnergicß chiefly of tho Road Board, to whom the thanks of tho electors are due, but when it came to a question of the division of tlie'l'County' iiico Hidings, I think it would have been quits proper and fair to the eleotoiu and property hold' rs if the snid Board had consulted tin in before proceeding furlhor. However, the Board thought. Vt dilieretitly (or at least a majority of them did), and consequently they have recommended the Governor to divide f County into fiva Ridings upon , .basis of valuation, With some tho Councillors this arrangement does not appear to give general satisfaction, and rightly so., Unoccupied Crown lands will have a preponderating representation■■ which does not appear to bo fair to tho more settled portion of the county/ Had there been fewer ridings and fower councillors proposed it would bavo teen miieh more satisfactory to the majority. However, the Koad 1 Board will not agree to any other proposals, at least the majority of tho members, than those already forwarded, although requested to do so by a public meeting; The Chairman of the Board Mr Whitcombe, has apparently got most of the members by the Wool, and is doing as he pleases with them, Ho is, so far as I can hear, a most unpopular man, and will not, I tbink, nnder any circumstance, be allowed to bold a prominent position in the County ' Council, if elected at all. The days of jteiron hand hayo gone by, and it |jh Wuld be well for some men if they could but, discern it, I hear tho Eketahuna Road Board carried a loan of £3OOO for improvements on the Parkville Special Settlement Block on Saturday last, This should give Eketahuna a lift,