THE TOWN BOARD.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 182, 27 May 1896, Page 2

THE TOWN BOARD.

TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —The community of Rotorua n have drawn a long tigh of relief onU ing tbo result of the last meeting of ■'■ Board. Thanks to the public jicti*'the clear and trenchant voice of thefts and the strong common sense of theCrcr Lands Commissioner (Mr Mueller', '■' of our old friend Mr Brent, the km of the township has been relegated 11 natural and proper place east of Puarag Tlie sulphurous vapors and malodmt concomitants ever pervading the cuoi of the new township will form a des and effective buffer to any atmospse invasion of microbes from the now .-■ for the sewage doposit, while the fife iugs and drainings therefrom willbi odorised and obliterated in thctnrbidi brimstone impregnated Puarenwa. J* Chinaman also may pursue his revolfc cheap cabbage and cauliflower destinrhis heart's content, even if his vogetali may not be relished quite to the enfc satisfaction of the fastidious tourisl the " Grand " and " Lake House " . -• '• Geyser." But while congratulatis ourselves on the narrow escape we Inexperienced over this particular subiee the question naturally arises, tloos f[ present local authority of Rotorua if. sufficient or any security for better s: ministration in the immediate and eatj future? To most thoughtful and uncus minds the answer, it is to be feared, itbe in the negative. The individuals bers of the present Board are gentlei who are perhaps as able andas possessed sufficient business capacity as is necessar or very probably obtainable, in suck small community as ours. But witk detracting from their personal merits i any way it is fairly evident that most them—their life and training havingoa confined for many years to narrow ofßd grooves —have lost touch with the V politic, and entertain no keen,living,a kindly interest, in what the public a deem beneficial or requisite for tiadopted home. Officialism is net a hi: ly soil for the growth of such ii yii spirit. On the contrary it rather sea to foster, amongst the ordinary run men, an arrogant and self-opinion.:: habit of mind. This habit or disease the official mind, unless held in chi by higher and nobler motives, rap developes into a morbid and haughtjd regard of any or everything which : public from their knowledge and dr; bought experience may suggest. Si apparently is the disease under whichi Rotorua Town Board now so painfi labours—and suffers. Desperate diseas it is said, require desperate remedies, is to be hoped the Board's case is not very desperate. If the foregoing <£ nosis bo anyway near the truth, it is ( dent the Board has its cure in its o' band, and the community will, doubti watch with some interest the course treatment it will adopt in the full Should the Board's malady be allot to increase by neglect of friendly ws ings, such as this is, then Routgen's rays must be brought to bear rigidly this opaque and diseased, although ' young. local Body, and the knifeapj carefully and scientifically to the a seat of the disorder. TJntil then. Sins watch and pray that the Board will save itself and live a long and useful! and enjoy even a greener old age thai early youth lias certainly been.—l am. Ngawha. Rotorua, May 20, 1896.