SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] TUESDAY JANUARY 17, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4321, 17 January 1893, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

TUESDAY JANUARY 17, 1893.

Being the extended hub or the Wairabapa Daiiy, with which it is identical

The Masteriou Town Lands Trustees have been critioised reoently concerning two very important actß of administration, viz,, a subsidy towards a publio pump, and a proposed grant in aid towards a scholarship. In some way or other the two thingß have been mixed up together, and it has been gravely argued that because tho Trust was an educational endowment it exceeded its powers in subsidising a pump, Now, it may be open for the profane to question the expediency of this mysterious pump, that yet seems born to flow unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air, because tha ; - .:3t ardent temperance advocate cannot require two pumps within a radius of one hundred feet. But the power of tho Trustees to expend the money on Mr Woodroofo's hobby pump is undoubted. They are authorised by the Aot to make grants for purposes of publio utility, and even a superfluous pump may be classed under this category. Tho question of the eoholarehip is a more serious matter; but it is one which ought to present no difficulty. purpose, but as yet no regulations HvT been framed for its expenditure. In the absence of suoh necessary regulations personal issues orop up which are very undesirable, In old times there used to bo on the part of the Trustees a slight weakness for encouraging personal applications and playing the part of patrons, Very much of the income of the Trust was frittered away in response to respeotfnl potations and importunate deputations, instead of tho Trust income being apportioned on somo broad ground and an < effort being made to secure some substantial benefit for the town through its instrumentality, The income was not altogether wasted but it was ! scrambled for somewhat. Of late the Trustees have certainly developed a little more backbone and displayed a ■ oapaoity for administering the Trust i on business lines. They have been a little weak, perhaps, over the precious , pump and a little dilatory in formu- i lating the necessary regulations for the 1 disposition of their scholarship grant, ' but they are very unlikely either to ] exceed their powers by paying for a \ pump or to allow themselves to take ' up a false position with reference to i the aoholarship fund, i