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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1058, 5 April 1879, Page 2

• Sik,—ln yqur last Saturday's issuo, I noticed that the Member for Harapcpo (I beg his pardon, "Waipa) has monopolised a good column of your space, in adjudioafcing in a slightly egotistical manner in reference to some bridge he fancies is to be built someAvhere in the rising and populous neighborhood which has the honor of counting h^m, as'a 're'si-I dent, and infor-ml^s? yomfreadors, further, that "h'e was 'employed, during a road board .meeting, in studying the paper containing news, I dare say, a month old, but still news to him, all of which, I have no dquht, pro.vos highly interesting to. himself. B.nt, I would like to "remind him that there is a very largo majority of his constituents who have not the happiness to live in Harapepe, and who, in their consequent stupidity aud ignorance.

see little or no interest m the petty squabbles of its highway board, even though they relate to the affairs and denizens of that bustling place, and who think their member might be better employed m laying his views on current measures of importance, Mr Curtis's Education Bill, for instance, before them. I suppose the last fortnight's papers have not yet reached him. When they do, he will, at the next board meeting, see m them a long and interesting correspondence anent that measure. And the pronounced voice with which constituencies have claimed the attention of their representatives m respect to Secular Education will, I hope, wake him up to a sense ef the responsibilities he has incurred m becoming the representative of an intelligent community. Should Mr McMinn not meet his constituents and lay his views before thm, at least on this measure, I think they woxild be justified m requesting him to redeem his promise and resign, " when he found he was not m accord with his constituents," and relegate himself to that sphere of usefulness as Chairman of a Highway Board.— lam, &c, An Elector