HARAPEPE NOTES.
At the last meuting of tho Pirongia Highway Board a communication was received from the Raglan County Council requesting the Hoard or the district to nominate five persons to form a Licensing Board for the riding, and that the clerk of the Council would come over and a.st as returning officer to take the local option poll. As there is not such a thing as a public-house or hotel in the riding, the Board came to the only conclusion that they could do without a Licensing Board which was not wanted and that there was no need for u returning officer to come over as there would be no poll, and the clerk of the Council was notified to that effect, as it was useless to uu' the district to an expense for nothing. Notwithstanding this, on Saturday last we had a, visit from him to take the poll, and he had the pleasure of spending the day as best he could at our school-house, as of course there was no poll to take. His fee will be 1 presume a guinea, and ten shillings a day travelling expenses. At the same time this riding is in debt. This is a small sample of the way we are governed ; is it any wonder that the country is in a bankrupt sta'e? The County Council will siiy the Act compels them t> do so; then why have such Acts? We hive an Inspector of Slaughter-houses (a very necessary person no doubt in towns or thickly populated districts), this riding has one butcher in it and it would be a stretch of imagination to call his a slaughter-house. Wlisn the foolery of the thing was pointed out, the answer was the Act compels us to appoint inspectors in every riding. Having a county council in such a thinly populated county as Raglan is a piece of tomfoolery from tho beginning to the end. Road boards could have done ail the work wanted for the next 20 years, cheaper and better.
During nearly nil the harvest time we have had in this di.-uict very unsettled weather, the crops but for that would have been fairly good; the grain crops being principally outs.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2912, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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371HARAPEPE NOTES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2912, 14 March 1891, Page 2
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