AMALGAMATION OF TAMAKI WEST AND PANMURE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3803, 27 October 1869, Page 6

AMALGAMATION OF TAMAKI WEST AND PANMURE.

-To the Editor ot the Daiiy Southern CRoaa. , Sir,— l will thank you foV'.a small space in , your columns for a few remarkg on the amab \ gamation of the Tam«ki West highway district with Panmure. tarn not going to discuss, the wisdom of destroying the action of a I highway district, which has been in operation for the hut feven years, and has not only! worked satisfactorily to the, whole of the' ratepayers of the district, but has baen * means of advancing the best interests of the province, and that without receiving any assistance wHatever for the last two years from eitheif the Provincial or General'Go7eru'in'ent. .Nor am I going to discus* the question of justice or Injuatioe to Panmure, or ask the member for the Pensioner Settlement*' why he has not sooner digjovewd the 'injustice, if there has been. , But, sir, it would be a libel on the We«t Tamaki ratepayer*,' as a' body*, I td charge them with an intentional act of irt« £ justice to Panmure or 'any' other Highway' district. But the, question, air 1 , has'wznore general bearing,', and may' become > one, of serious evil, and it 'la for this ' reason I wish Ito call your 'attention' to' it. - The General' j, Assembly ia not in> position todeoide a <iate ,of that kind on its merits j it is pre-eminent y one for the Provincial Government toldeiii; with, and it ought to have, baen referred 'back to that Government. The member for the Pensioner Settlements, by J inducing < the Assembly to amalgamate Panmure with ,the other district, was destroying the individuality of Panmure (if I mayio say) as a Special settlement, and striking the first blow at its i being represented as such in the ■ General Assembly of New Zealand. 1 The Parliament! of New Zealand would add little to' its dignity or claim to ' respect by deoidihg •' t[deitionsf of this kind ; the evidence upon which,- .from ihe nature of things, must b» onesided, md about which its member* kdow' little or Nothing. , The course the last General tAssembry way district* without any warning 1 to inoi'e moat intere«ted'iA the matt«r,"isithe f stroniesfc argument that oould be brought, forward in favour of provincial institutions a* against one government. ° Whatever- fault* the present £taperiatend*ut may have, injuatice to the Pentioner Stttlemedts i*Jn6t one [of them. Nor i« |t wasonable'to suppose khat the Provincial Governxient'wrtula havevbted' otherwise than justly had the mutter* bqen left entirely in it* hands, as it ought'to have : been.^l am; &0., ' > . «V;Aii#. , Tamaki, October 13, 1869,< '3 . "

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