CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VI, Issue 1172, 19 November 1885, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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i hit io , . ..To the Editor of the Star. SlE,'— I J eee by your issue of the 6th, what is supposed to be a reporfc'.bf Jfliej Ifcaire, Boad Board meqtingjie d on the] 15th of Ootbber.' I wish 'to'^|t ; rowf.own i correspondent 6traight.in toe-ma tor. 'He evidently does bappenid attue pteyvh)B T meetmg*jof^he 'boara',*as he gets . bis reppj3te;at eeoopdlhind. He ; says tbe.^reporbof the raf«ee,>Mr.' W^P;« V ,Taylq^ was , wAd^ o^P^, %i a)t /J a|irte«oiit'j fneetija^J^r. Kirlcpatnokctbe engineer to the'hb J araTan^Jlir/W;%jTaylot,'infimber,. werifappoji^a^^WSvejr ' road.'and'to'^jkirt'fft the ineeting on the/15th of-Ootoberp What; iwd>' ibe' mos^ neoewary worKtoi2he;done<i,'Mf. W. P. Taylor said ,he ; ft%d//wa^e^roYejf ihe road, and foqn^ l; tb'ft npper^end, wanted^im..' proving/and ibal the ejotr^mje TWy bad, but as then ,*??& oof ' n'o'uey ragugfi t to do both endihe recommebaed jibetoard to attend to the upper end first, as the enhance could ', do rwithout improvement, f hen 7 ' the engineer's 1 re'porfAwa^hewrdi .This y&silp'i&ifi efl(e<jt^that He kntew every ; inch of the. roadyhaTiii^ taken the;leveuh from end tonend, and he conaidered- ttiaT entrance .the wowt parttof "tbewad,. agd if improved voulo; beuefttjaUTtto'settlers' qn.tbe.rpad., Ypur : oywa correspondent | very^oaielaUyjleav^a f&fymfpn&foa »•■ portbu^/thoagh^be >biHt^ f aiid|disinterestedness/ojptbf engineer xipiioti be questioned.'^ ; He' then" goes on - to^'descrU)^ a scene in whicti^twp^m^mberß'exbaaated the alphabet! and came very near barling. sonMWip'g<m<fre>!folid. [ftfef'eaeh pther. I wonder .where he picked this up, j as Imeeting, .and sww no such conduct. He. says " the meeting ended ie no quorum. I Oimk.iTw,pWd be much better if your, SwPwpad^take^tHe^trouble to come to the meetings in person, arid then he, might/get t^jprreot Ictea of wbatfiß gwng j on. The board -was- justified m* giving , the evidence of the engineer morp weight' tomim -s f^^ fcoo * fl »?**s engmoenng.— i am, ««o.» titLj'