WAIKAWA.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 17, 3 May 1895, Page 3

WAIKAWA.

Considerable interest was taken in tho election of a School Committee for the ensuing year by our small community, no less than twelve candidates having been nominated, and all went to the poll. The five successful candidates were Messrs Cbas. Mann, Jas. Duncan, Thos. Gillies, S. Bailey and T. A. Trambls. At a meeting of committee, held immediately after the election, Mr Gillies was appointed chairman and Mr Bailey secretary and treasurer. The late committee had a balance of L 6 odd to hand over, which isi I consider, a very satisfactorystate of affairs after their term of office. The contractor for metalling the road from Niagara to Templeton's has been obliged to knock off his men nnd teams until spring, finding it impossible to complole the contract at present. The consequence is that the road is now in a worse state than ever it was for some distance between the two parta which are metalled, and unless the County Council do something to it in the way of fascining, traffic will be entirely stopped very soon. Our Coal Syndicate are still boring away through sandstone, the engine, etc., working very satisfactorily. Some interest is felt here in the forthcoming ballot on Ist May for the State farms at Haldane's Estuary, a number of the residents here being applicants. Great dissatisfaction is felt re tho road works, several of the married men residing here having applied to the Commissioner for orders to get work on the road, and cannot get on whilst there are men being sent from Invercargill and elsewhere, a great proportion of them being single men. Our Government, I always understood, intended (or represented that they did) that married men who had settled in a district should get the preference for any road work in that district. If such be their desire, I must say that their representative, the Chief Commissioner, is doing his very best to j thwart them. f April 27.