LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1415, 28 July 1881, Page 3

LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — Now that the question of local government is agitating the colony throughout, and is pretty certain to be made a test question at the appioaohing: general eleoHon, I think that a little discussion on the subject of the working of the various forms of government we possess will be of advantage to mqst of the electors It seems to be a very doubtful point in r most persons' minds ,ag to whether 'county o)r 'road boaVds are best* adtfpfied ijo^our remrir|m<jnts.- ' Road boards have done iind 4*B u^ijEUf '»* very g-jfeafrdeal flf'gpod in many district^ and for opening up new Country I tfrhikthey cannot be equalled : but then it is a recognised fact that the powers possessed by them are not sufficient, and we want some higher authority to whom to t apply in various -matters > >without' being com*-' pelled te go to the House of Representatives. This higher authority might very well come in the shape of county c'ouncilsj ' not certainly constituted as they are at presen ( t, .because*^ Ifc very often . havens, , under «4tf& |a:esejlfe conVib^tfoVth.afc'^he councils and ifae haards^are antagonistic, but somewhat in this wise : I woujd pro,pose that the councils' be' composed entirely at members of^the various hi £h H way boards,' 1 each 'ro'atf t-btiard- -district a to -be a riding, and to bjs~ rf £ep"L-es3nl;efJ tf as far ns possible in the council on the basis, of population, p,r th,e amount of rates leyied. ea tl\at a large board w\ig\\% be entitled to two , representatives, or even 'ttiQrej"^'^' 1 -^: small one to one Qnly. Provision would t have to be nia4^ fqr tlie t eleption (special) ■ iof raembeip ifj.r.epresent^outlying districts |(such as" Rangiriri), where no road boards 'exist. You would thus have a council [composed entirely of persons directly interested- Ifl"th0( fcame^ireQiian^'tiha' (highway bqa,rds, and. ijq (WoiiUl be likely tq exis^ between th,e two bodjeg. A Jot of trouble would be saved in the way of elections, as we would be 'electing our . same time as ISur'Tii^nway tr^sceesian4 no sp^ojrit fqr , extraordinary .vacancies, would be neces,sary, because' if a ooun'cMoV 3 leW <6v 'reigned; His *$&! ooujd be flljed by another member of the highway boa.rd which he represented., 'All elections foy trustees ahouW be oonQuoted im&v thQ LQQaI ijleotions Act,

and the cleric to the council should be the returning officer for all the boards. Mahf ;ot(hcr little improvements could be maqej 'but of'tnem more anon. In the course of time aa all the roads in the variojus' 'dXstrip^^^opened'Up: and giade they are sure to be made county roads, and when they ,are> all .complete ,the ;road ;boarils will „be. no* < longer required/ / and. would die out, the district then becoming simply a riding as under t)ie present Act, and in the course of time we should have simply the council to deal with. The powers of councils as f^AW&falM&pi-kes and dealing with local d&ramKßpjjp!, would of course have to \>e House of Representatives, !%wgKsn&in borrowing powers ought to t>4tfw>nferred on them, so that the different districts would possess what we r3a|ly all do want — real local government. ' J Sdk|tered and varying as the districts of ' M^raKlt^are at present, it seems to me sffiiilii^fe-Of * ne question that one hard j;^pP'fa|)fj^|yle of government, adminis||lfed tjpjtfji* perhaps a distant centre, can j^BSiblj^jbel mat^ e so as *° De 3U3 US * an<^ Si^bil^itsfactory to all ; therefore give ; la^ijoTp^ers to these councils to use or .-l ( e't£ alone suit the requirements of .40i place. Mj^s for provincialism, the 4-WcklandV districts, I should , tniiik, hadsjnaite enough of that long' siiice, andj,^j| think Mr Sheehan must b|se beenfvjMing when he brought his ntbjfcion forw*ra; t for the restoration of the provinces ; l i%wio or he must be Jijitle .awrafe of the general public Opinion throughout the colony. Taking ] our own two districts here, Waipa and ,\Vaikato, a council composed of 'of the following boards in i Waipa, viz.', Newcastle, Hamilton, Tulnka'ramea, 1 Pukekura, Mafagapiko, and Rangiaohia, with an extra member each from the three largest ' boards, ought to compose a council well able to properly and satisfactorily .conduct the affairs of the district, bat I think that Firongia and all that side of the Waipa county up to the dividing range should be taken from Raglan, and added to Waipa county. In Waikato, Cambridge Town being still a highway district, would of course be represented until they make use of the Town Districts Bill. Hoping to see this subject ventilated, I am, Sir, yours &c, T. G. Sandes. Hamilton, July 25, 1881.

. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,' — I see by your issue of Saturday the Christadelphians has'e drawn out another— if 'it be yet another — funny correspondent. He endeavours to clothe himself with a Ohristadelphian dress, and names himself accordingly. The dress, however, is somewhat disarranged, he having forgotten to adjust it, with the result of expo&ing his shame to the public, they seeing one who belongs to no sects whatever, but a kind of nothingarian, anywheman, nullifidian, of the hermaphrodite family, He ought to have a very conspicuous nook in Barman's American curiosity shop. Speaking of Barnum, sir, reminds me that he has offered «ome ten thousand pounds for a pure bred Englishman, but when seeking after this unheard of thing 1 he could not have heard of the ra> a avt* of Huntley. But although the diess of your " Another" is that of Esau, the voice is still that of Jacob. This seems to confirm my conclusions, "two in onej" but these two would make the bird more rare than ever. This, sir, may not be very well put together, but it is not bad for one who has not had the advantage your correspondent has evidently had, viz., tuition in the school of Lord Dundreary, where they learn the art of mixing things up. I wonder whether he "lithph." If he does it will add to his recommendation toßarnum. By L the-way, Sir, when signing myself "Craze," my state of mind must have been much akin to his own : vis, the very opposite of the respective productions} if we changed names we would then eaoh appear in our true ohavaoters. The substance of my letter he has not touched : he cannot do it with any success, or he would. True, there is a denial, but he proves (?) his "no" by stating what ,no one of the theologians denies, while they all believe what I said of them, that "they nearly all believe immersion scriptural, although they practise sprinkling. The most they can say otherwise is that irnm.epsion is not necessary, though scriptural. This is in harmony with my statement. But he will have a contradiction somehow and not discerning ''between things that differ, he introduces a foreign idea. When I say that nearly all admit the scripturalness of the form, he meets me by denying something else, viz., that that form is denied by the great majority as necessary to cleanse you. Surely the form of an ordinanoo and the result of obedienoe to _th,at for/n ar,e. Tdifferent things. Agajri> he dqesj nbtKpnly see an aflfii msition, BtitMie bntiglifigly denies it by affirming the same thing again. I said "nearly all" this expression admits of exceptions to the "all." Again, \\q indecently exposes himself in \\\% r-efenanoe to hell ; he accuses 'm,e' oi <( misleading " here. JJe then represents the Christadelphians as saying " we only believe that those who do not die righteously will not rise again. " Clirisikdelphiaris believe that there will be a resurrection both of th,e just and the unjust, the faifchfn} ai}d the unfaithful servant, ajso. the rejecters of Chri&t j-tihat'thpso who 'are faithful to the end will obtain incorruptible natures for the, manifestations of life, which life is eternal, because of the nature through which it is manifested ; when they \ri\\ ascend conjointly with the heir qf the the world (Romans iv M J3), and be its kings and ppie^a, and r-eign on e^rth (Rev. V., 10, and Ps^lm xxxvij., 29); that, the, others, as frb&ioVefstatedf'wjU be am;entfi*to outer darkness, etc. fMafohew "i^-^M" 50 ' wd ? s^ lin Qs&j 12> and ? l£yiii.,"3). We bellevS'that- I;hWe shall perish, however-, by law in the day when God khall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ (Romans ii., 12—16), they perish by law because sinning by law ; there are others without law, they perish, but not, by a'la\f they (were 1 'never 'itnfter ; they are as the whole race would ha\'§ been if Jesus , had not appealed, ftn, scene'; The 'coming «f }igh> into the world is thg gpquncl qf condemnation and Jtfe efer-naL (&>tm jj%, 3). *qfl}ase* who? BicoWrelarfto Ws are either saved or punished in the future ; they who do not become related to it are neither rewarded nor punished'; theft relation to, Adam, consigns, theni^ graye 1 -"(Genesis in ,< \^ Jtf^tjS" V., }2, # t ov,egbsTX,K^ Ift Jfsaj^h, x., 1& and xh'tf., 17, QM"t{) )§)• Th,is is havmony j with the priiyjjpje th,£\t s^^ is not imputed where ihere is qq law (Romans iv., 15), and that tnen. are alienated from the life iQf-Qad'4hri6tfgtDi^i?)rance.— I am, etc., , Craze.

\ „ " Thipw is r a stoigr 6uire«t, 1 ' **y» the London Cutf/fpo^ ,'«|^rtj the late Mr Carlyle was' a terrible domestic tyrant. 4* breakfast , he wpujdcome downgimmbalHrf; l anff, frMcil^'^Vihe ,well spww» hoard, declare WWltoWwllt fw \ dog. Mrs Carlyle therei^pon would order the girl to, take the despised viands back to the kitchen. Presently, when (fesperajety hungry, h,is spouse woyld ctfde^thf samed^he^itio b«b»iught Mpk, which her. husband imnjediatoly pro'cie'dedtQcleVoV^h[iqßnite relish and wit,hqut my moffe ado! t<f No wonder that the sage considered his wife a greater woman than either Creorge Sand or George Eliot." 6 S

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