THE KIHIKIHI TOWN BOARD ACCOUNTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 13 September 1884, Page 3

THE KIHIKIHI TOWN BOARD ACCOUNTS.

to Tin: run oh. SIR,— Mr tfanell h.uug thought fit to publish his refusal to com cup a meeting of ratepayer and lay befoie them the jne-out financial state of the distucfc, you will, T trust, allow me to say a woid or two in reply to his misleading pioduction. In choosing Mr (r. C. Cooper, who signed about tho middle of the leqwisttion, as one to whom to addiess his leplv, and making so pointed .1 lefeience to his connection with tho A. C. Foicp, Mi b'aiicll lays him self open to the chaigo of lieinsx actuated h) petty spite and a dcMie to nijiue linn. His assertion that a "copy statement ' of the boaid's accounts lias been tiuni>hecl me id incoiiect, as what was supplied is meiel\ a copy of the ])üblis|iod balance sheet of March last, winch oul\ tieats of sou c 2V of the leceipts of tlie ljoaid dining then short teim of ofhee. Wh it the ivitepajeis aio anxious to know is the piesent state of the town board finances, as although they have recehed between tlnoo «»nd foui hundred pound-, snice tli.it balance sheet was published it is cm lently lepoited that they are heauly in debt, and the fact that although j\Jr JAuiell s(s (l \s that "all" ac «.nts are open foi 111-pecL'on, the tieasuiei en, ajiplied to to appoint a convenient time for their inspection, intoiined me that the pei mission only extended to accounts prim* to Maich last adds weight to the rumour, and coupled -with the sticnuous efforts being made by Mr ] (l anell and party to secure le election and so pie\ent examination of the accounts tends to strengthen the belief that the lepoit is true, and also that it is tune a ch.im.'e was nude in the personnel of the boaid. — I am, | &c., J. W. Em is. Kihikihi, 11th Se)jtcmber, 1881.