The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Issue 641, 29 June 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Ti mes.

BqxwT and exact jn«ti>e to all men, Of * Imtcvcr suta or persuasion, rcligi >U 9 or political **\ * * # 'Tare «haH ibr Pjvst the People's right ojaintain, UiAwed by ni^ucucc a-id unbribed by ge-in.

THURSDAY JUNE 20, 1876.

IHhcing the month, of July tho ratepayers of this various Highway an, l To y» B ard Districts will be called upon to.£.xjsrciise the wry impoitant- function of, appointing th.-ir local representatives for the enruing twelve months. 'Important as the duty has ever bpon, though nofc in every caso has that importance "bdeu ditty roi*!,at»% it become* for more so when under the ne.v Local Governments Act — whatever the exact nature of that measaro may be — a very much larger share of power a"hd patronage wiil 1)8 cpnfoned up.m lucstl governing bod i>-7, , than ihoy at present enjoy. From these, too, wi.l be elwctod tho members of the scv«nxl County Boar«lK wLoho powers will bo stj.l l.tr^i»r, m.nr nonvly approaching to those of ineiiibi'ftt of Provincial Council, luvinj? oli;iri>e probably of qaoh, hospitals, police, and other important mrittcrs. As a matter of course tho Highway tnwtoc-a to be elected next month, though" for the far .less im[).)rfc ; »nt dnt'uw, m presonfc portainin? to loo.il jfo.erning biiiea, will be <h-j men on whom wili duvohe for the first year the workinor of the new institutioaa, which will ropi>ioc existing ones. "It is, therefore, dojjirAUU' tli.it riitepaygrs. genV-raUy, sl»ogl»l raiiSe' thcmsolves from the too generaJJy Common practise of allowing such elections to shape themselves aa they may. It wiM ' bo a great mistake if the oflhe- of ■ Highway trustee ia nlJowed to full into the bauds of any but really aenorppjtle, Irasfe-' woifchy, r«3|»<jnsiljlb nun, and tlie office w iil be one whiciisuoha m:m mi'y occupy with honor to himself and Hdvjiula^e to to tho public interest of his district. * ' ± "