OUR MEMBERS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 35, 22 May 1858, Page 4

OUR MEMBERS.

By the "Wonga Wonga," Mr. Fitz Gerald returned from Wellington, and, by the overland route, Mr. Gollan may be daily expected. "We believe that both have been unceasing in their efforts to serve the District — displaying, too, in such efforts, much sound judgment. Had the business of the Province been permitted to proceed, we doubt not that, by this time, we should not only have many goodly sums at our disposal for local improvements, but an efficient Board of Commissioners, to whose credit such sums would be at once placed, and by ■whom they would be promptly expended. Our representatives had reason to believe that, with other amounts to be voted for this District, would be £250 for Tareha's creek, a like sum for flinshing Petane road, £400 towards the track to Auckland, £1000 towards opening overland communication with the Wairoa and intermediate Districts, and £10,000 for improvements in Napier harbour. And they had wisely taken steps which, had the public business not been suspended, would have precluded the possibility of their votes becoming a dead letter.

Wliile we owe our members much for what they intended to do — although such intentions have for the present been frustrated — we are also indebted to them for what they have done — if no more than that they have steadily kept before the public the importance of this District, and have obtained, on all sides, a full recognition of its claims.