ARARTMU HIGHWAY BOARD.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3355, 17 April 1868, Page 3

ARARTMU HIGHWAY BOARD.

To the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Sir,— The report furnished you by " a correspondent" under the above heading ia by no means correct, Mr. Frost, the "chairman appointed by his Honor the Superintendent, advertised a meeting to take place on the Bth Aprn, to take into consideration the division of the district. In the report of tha meeting furnished by your correspondent, he gives the motion made on 12th January to present a petition to his Honor for the division of the district. The motion was that he was to Bign a petition on behalf of the meeting (not presented). Mr. Robert Sinclair moved, which was seconded, " That the chairman forward this petition to his Honor the superintendent, and give this as a reason that the meeting did not elect trustees." This will show that Mr. Frost was not instructed to call on his Honor the Superintendent. His doing so was no part of the business of the meeting. He alto came to the meeting without the minutes of the meeting held 12th Jannary, and when asked to produce them refused to do so until a motion was made, and seconded, that the minutes of the last meeting be produced, before any other business was done. The meeting had to be adjourned until * messenger was despatched to his house for them. After they were got, and read, he stated that it was not necessary for them to be put to the meeting to be confirmed. I had to move that the minutes be read to the meeting for approval. This being seconded, the minutes were read to the meeting and approred of. I then asked the chairman if he bad received a reply to the petition from his Honor of the last meeting. His answer was— No, but he had called upon his Honor personally ; and he gave an explanation with a few additions, which were published last Saturday. I then moved that the verbal answer given by the chairman to the petition was unsatisfactory, and that we now proceed to elect trustees for the district. Thie being seconded, Mr. Frost Btated that it was throwing discredit upon his statement, and \ras an insult to his Honor. To my mind, such an idea could only arise from the fertility of his own brain. I informed him that my motion had no reference either to the one or the other. He then stated he would lea?e the meeting, and on his doing so I asked him to leave with us the copy of the Highways Act, forwarded to him by his Honor the Superintendent for the use of the meeting. Thii he refused to do.

I do hope that, when Mr. Frost is again appointed chairman of a public meeting, he will make himself conversant with the duties thereof. You will oblige me by inserting the above iv your columns and Weekly JNBWs. — I am, &c. John Lamb. Waifcemata Mills, April 16, 1868.