Correspondence. Phillips v Alfredton Road Board.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3183, 18 April 1889, Page 3

Correspondence.

Phillips v Alfredton Road Board.

To tho Editor. Sib, —In referring to your opinion on this road question of thrco years' battle in your paper or the 4th April, I take up tho strain to send tho echo back aguin. Your readers will seo 1 wasn't mad, nor pig-headed, nor made short work of, but I am protected by law to stop me being swept out of, existence with their tidal wsve, My God stood to 1110 with health and elreiAft to labor liard ior money to battle against big odds, single liauded, and God protected me that always does the right. I am surprised to hear of wealthy landowners watching the result of a strugglcr fighting for his rights, to coma in for their benefit and not strike a blow nor contribute towards the battle; but I was compelled to cut ray road through, or carry the swag at a great loss. The Board would not hear of arbitration, nor accept the Public Works Act, so what ' is tbo uso of Government laws if the public bodies won't abide by them ? dome members think they are never wrong, but a heavy penalty should be put on thorn individually if they break theso laws, the same as for any " other crime; but neither the Masterton Eoad Board nor any other loal body requires to petition the Govern-

ment to, alter their laws if they are oarried out properly. Ono of these persons cut mv fence down, and filled up my drain, then went to give mo in charge a3 a criminal. I ask your readers who is the criminal, me or the individual referred to? Is the Government going to have two laws, one for the rich and one for tho poor 1 If so, tho settlers had belter leave the Colony, or liavo a civil war at once. It is high time the Government mado a searching inquiry into these matters, otherwise powder and dynamite might come into use for revenge, for a man won't bo ruined through such persons for nothing. ' This is the justice they must expect. In oldon times sheep stealing meant hanging; now, if a poor nun tries to stop it ho is running a risk of being put in gaol. But across the liii 6 laws alter, seemingly, so the sooner these members wash their hands clean, the better it will be lor the Colony at large. I a-a prepared to meet any persoSs having anything to saj on theso points on a public platform.—l am, otc., G. W. Phillips, (Blackmailod), Alfredton. [Mr Phillips is laboring undor a mistake. No comments were made by us in our issue of the 4tli April,— Ed. W.D.I