SPECIAL SESTLEMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3360, 14 November 1889, Page 2

SPECIAL SESTLEMENT.

10 TUB EDITOII. Eketahuna, November 11,1880. Sir,-I havojusb been up to Eketaluina have a look about. As 1 saw by yoiu paper that a Mr Tyler attended the Road Board meeting, and gave some trouble about it deep creek bridge, 1 thought I would go over to Park ville aud see if he had any just reason of complaint. I first visited the central road crossing and found a side cutting about six feet wide, so that a horse could get down with a pack on. I was told by a man that it had been there about a year, for the people to got their things in. On inquiry about the state of the road that Mr McLachlan bad laid out, 1 found all the culverts and side-cut-tings completed on the South and Central roads, and Mr King has got out plans for tenders, so I thought it 'did not look so bad. I then visited the North road crossing, and after crawling over some six or eight chains of felled bush, I found the creek, but there was no side cutting, or any place where a beast could get down, and there is not anything done for these people tq crqss in any way. I found a mttn, and inquired of him the reason these people had no crossing, and he explained it this way-" The Central Road had a man oil the Road Board, and he took everything to his road, They would not let Mr McLachlan lay off any culverts or side cuttings on this North Road, and that piepe of ieljed bush that you crawled oyer is to keep people away from falling into the creek." " Who lives over there ?" " His name is Tyler. He was the first settler on the rural land in FarMle, but they do not lik? bill) at

the Eoad Board, and he baa to fight all alone as there is no one to help him, and he is a very poor minority to struggle against tile Central road mob. Tlio opinion is tlioy intend getting rid of him and will starve him out by giving him no bridgo and no road. Ho is tough, but they will send liirn. •' He can't eat his grass and make bis payments," so I asked tbo man where there was any land for sale as I wanted to buy a place, and he said if I bought in the big mob I would be all riffht. "Those over there were only such a small lot not worth notice, and the bridgo toll out-votes them, and always will, they will have to sell out to some big fellow for a song." Well, if this is some of your special settlements at Eketahuna may I keep away from them, and 1 pity Mr Tyler and his would-be neighbours, I then asked about the loan money, He said the little people will bavo to pay their sharo and the big mob will get all the roads and, bridges for themselves as you see they have already got. Then I asked if there was not any schedule of works to bo carried out with the loan money. The man said that the schedule could be stretched to any size as long as it was for the majority, and the bridge is to have a figure head oarved on it in remembrance of the Council and chairman. Well, I thought it would be better if both of these bridges were let together as the scaffolding for ono would do for both, but that, he said, would not starve out that littlo minority and get rid of them after they have paid the interest oil the loan for the benefit of the majority's bridge.—l am, k, Johnny Plank,