Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties Gazette. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920. YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2

Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties Gazette. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920. YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCES.

"Tin: Great Unpaid" is a term that is exclusively applied to the noble army of Justices of the Pence, because they serve the State - • jiarticuhtrly those svho reside in country tosvns and districts—at. great inconvenience to themsehos and with much help to other members of the community. But the time given and the inconvenience -ullered by these honorary .Justices are as nothing compared ssith the scrs ices letidered to their communities by members of local bodies. It goes svithout saying that thesis publicspirited men get more kicks than ha pence tor their services—and they certainly get an overflowing cup ot criticism. These philosophies upropas o! the enterprise of the Mayor of Fedding in holding conferences on no lessor than three important question; ycstoiday at term ion in association with members of local bodies and IM'lding protossiona! and business men. awill be found reported in other columns ot to-day's St ah. There svill be a general feeling of satisfaction tha* Mr 'Harford acted so promptly in .ogaid to the passing of the Prince of Wales through Feilding. Even lor a stay of ten minutes the proprieties for a prince base to be observed sv.-h ahead. There are many folks in Feilding and district who feel that sch >- lar-bips for the children of the im n who served in the war arc pret'eraole to monuments of stone. These people will -i, that the scholarships scheme was brought to an issue at yesterday. conference. The proposal for the founding of two scholarships of £100 each ciiiried in a half-hearted svaynow goo,- before the local bodies con corned ' ihe Feilding Borough Council, and the Urmia and Kiwitea County County Councils. Ir i- unfortunate that only tsvo out oi the five local bodies invited svere represent.-d ai. the conference to consider the rostdiikiLing problem, with a vicsv lo sec. iug whether local bodies with a community of intere-i could not act together in their schemes of roadss'ork, and whether in their combined vis,l ilies could solve the problem <>' the best and mo-, economical system ot iup-die-Mng loads svith it vicsv to pio- iding a more lasting surface than ,-. obtainable under present conditions. lii. Mayor of Feilding put his ideas hi oUicieU- foiut before the meeting, and no doubt there svill be more heard oi the mosemem later on. Y«len!a\A;

meetings in Feilding show that- much i Anight a- sv.-ll as time and initialise aie spent by the men who give tliemelses io serving the interests of -hat m-.i-i ciiuoal and conservative oi aii humans, lb-- i afopaycr, who lias no

•■m option ot the worries of his repre■entaiise- in the Councils undergo

ei.-u on the one subject of road-mend-ing. And still more worries an- ahead