Normanby Bye-Laws.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 3031, 27 May 1895, Page 2

Normanby Bye-Laws.

Some time ago we " shut down " on a distinctly personal correspondence about Normanby bye-laws, and declined to publish letters from both sides. On Saturday we printed in a modified form a letter which seemed to deal with tbe public aspect of the question, but even into this there crept allusions to individuals.

From the other side we have received a latter which in so far as it is a reply to Saturday's letter is entitled to publication. Tbe writer says : — Sib,— Tbe letter yon published in last Saturday's issue is no glaringly incorrect, so perversive of all truth— for personal interest, one can only presume— tbat lam constrained to reply. " The Town Board is composed of people .who have no families." There are five members of tbe Town Board, and /among them is one who has his quiver very fall, who, if not wealthy, is honest in his endeavors to oarry oat tbe duties of a citizen, who has served in more than one public body, and whose daughter, in spite ot all dis* advantages iv the way of secondary edu. cation, will probably take tbe B.A.^egree. A great deal is said about the two publicans, members of the board. Those, sir, are exemplary men, whose licenses make the streets and roads, and whose plaoss could not probably be taken by your correspondent. And there is a storekeeper, who finds it hard enough to make a living out of tbe ratepayers, residents, and occupiers of Normanby. Iv tbe list of purchasers of seotions sold by Mr Cowern on bebalf of Nathan and Co. yon wi>l find that not one single purchaser bas monopolised the streets for dairy or carrier purposes, but that without exception it is oomposed of people who wish to buy a seotion or two for tbe pasturage of a horse or cow, or for building allotments and the legitimate use ' of township seotious. Further scan tbe lie*, and nowhere will you find the large owners of dairy stock or carrier horses so conspicuously represented in the protest of * l Ratepayers, residents and occupiers" presented to tbe Town Board. I ask you to consider tbe expression of tbe jfMt that it is these large droves which iftltßy the earthworks, and tbat tbe Tcwn Board has done everything necessary to keep the growth of grass from impeding progress by the allowing of any householder to graze cattle to tbe amount of three at 2s 6d each for six months.