THE CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1071, 6 May 1879, Page 2

THE CAMBRIDGE BOROUGH.

Sir, — It is an old saying that "half a truth is worse than a lie." Your reporter has proved the correctness of it by lus report of what appears as ray speech in to-day's Times. Ido not deny that I said what he reports me to have clone ; but I said much which is not reported. If I had only said what is reported, the opinion of persons reading it and not at the mooting, must bo that I was very inconsistent. It is to put myself right with thoso I represented, and were not at the mootmsr, that I now trouble you. It was quite truo bhab I objecbed for the reasons stated, but I gave stronger views not reported, oue of which was, that as the mover for the change was the Cambridge Town Board East, who had so shamefully squandered the funds entrusted to it : instancing a road to the wharf, where a contract was made, amounting to nearly £300, without auy tender being called, for : and which road could bo of no possible use, except to give a double frontage to the property to tho late Chairman ; they should nob be trusted to spend the rates from the other side bhe river. There would be no change excepb in name. I said further that if by the above named and other methods, they had spent their own rates, leaving them hundreds in debb, it was nob right to compel iu tho name of the law, another district to come in ancl pay their debts. Could any plan, bo devised by which the rates raised should be spent, where so raised, I would withdraw all objection, believing a Municipality far preferable to a Road board. As bhe Cambridge Easb have both area and pop ulabion to meet the law of the case, the sooner the change is made the better, if ib will only restrain the squandering propensity of this and the lato Road Board; bub by no means leb bhem have the spending of their neighbours money over the river. As the case stands, ib is as Uing the Government to permit this side to take the income of the other, to pay our debts Such a course is reciprocity with a vengeance. — I am, &c, S. Bright. y x Cambridge, May 2, ~ *