[ADVERTISEMENT.] TO THE EDITOR.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4506, 3 February 1872, Page 3

[ A DVER TISEMENT. ] TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— l observe in the Weekly News of the 20th insbant that Mr. Benjamin Han-is had attended a meeting in East Pukekohe to explain charges of "puerility, fee," made *gainst him by a majority of the Pukekohe Highway Trustees. The meeting was a very small one for such a populous district, and was thoroughly one-sided. The only other trustee present was his colleague for E*st Pukekohe, Mr. A. McDonald, who, being a classical scholar, will excuse my Latin quotation, rotumh ort, was very grandiloquent, and was heard declaiming at a great distance from the place of moating. Still, Mr. Editor, I would not have troubled myself to take any notice of the meeting, for it is a matter of indifference to the Pukekohe West and Tuakau trustees whether the ratepayers of East Pukekohe consider Mr. Benjamin Harris worthy of their confidence or not, as the trustees form their own opinions. But the conduct of the promoters of the meeting was altogether of an extraordinary kind. Mr. Deerness, the chairman, seems to have acted well, and distinctly refused to propose two motions of a "puerile" character to the meeting. The one, "Dismemberment of the present Board ;" the other, " Separation from West Pukekohe." And all for what ? The sequel will show. Before the meeting separated the Chairman of the Board was highly censured for voting away money from his own division to enrich another division. The faota are these : The assessment rates of Mr. Twidle's farm have, since West Pukekohe was admitted under the same Highway Board as East Pukekohe, been exclusively appropriated by East Pukekohe, with the exception of one year, when a portion of the rate was given to West Pukokohe. fhe same question came before the Board last year, when, because the trustee for Tuakau voted the same money to East Pukekohe alone, no fault was found ; but, this year, bpcause the chairman decided the question for the interests of West Pukokohe, ail was wrong in the eyes of the ratepayers of East Pukekohe. Any unbiassed person acquainted with the distiict would decide at once in favour of West Pukekohe. The whole of Mr. Twidle's farm lies into West Pukekohe (with the exception of some thirynine acres which the Trustees have loft to East Pnlcokohe), runs up West Pukekohe hill, and extendu to the Waikato swamp. When the question came before the Board, I expected it an little as any of the Trustees, but I weighed the matter well before roting, and the Trustees of East Pnkekohe might feel ashamed in taking any credit to themselves, aa it was only after Mr. B. Harris said that the rates of this farm were to be taken from them that the artful expedient of proposing that Tuakau, along with East; Pukekohe, should have a share was named as an amendment — not from any intereso in Tnahau, but that Pukekohe West might not get the whole sum. Believing as Ido that Tuakau has ho right to a portion of the rates spoken of, I voted as I did. ]$ow, who moved the vote of censure against the chairman, and acted the " cnt'a paw " ? A man who had been bound over to keep the peace towards me for 12 months under a penalty of two hundred pnvadu uteri ing, and whose term of obligation hail just expired the day before the meeting, and whose rates amount to Is. Bd. per annum. It is for no public benefit that Mr. Harris gets up those wnmtional meetings, but from personal spleen to get my name introduced into public notice as he would wink disagrerahty. This statement will be borne out by the following remarks contained in a letter to ma from Mr. A. McDonald: — "Pukekohe Valley, October 14, 1870. "Dr. Cor«ett:My dear Sir,- .... But let me say that, had it not beeu for Mr. Harris, you certainly would have beeu elected, for he had gone round the immigrants advising them to vote for Mr. Kean instead of Dr. Uorbett ; and I, in the presence of Mr. Black and others, stopped him when speaking in disrespectful terms of you, and told him that, seeing that he had a personal feeling against '^r. Corbett, that matter with matrerS-'w .wixioc up such a It would be well if Mr. McDonald would recollect that that personal feeling still exists. Mr. B. Harris says that "it was he who voted the Doctor into the chair ;" but he forgot to mention that he has said that he would annoy, but I suppose that he has brought more annoyance to himself than to any others. I may mention that Mr. Scott his been connected with the Pnkekohe Road Board for four yeara, and I think Mr. Gi'dkin has for an equal time, so that they ought to be well acquainted wilh the diati icts and Road Board matters, although Mr. Morgan choosea to censure them. — I am, &c., Robert T. Corbrsi 1 , Chairman of the Pukekobe Road Board. Tuakau, January 21, 1872.

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