AN ANSWER FROM ONE OF THE PUPPETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 184, 27 July 1893, Page 2

AN ANSWER FROM ONE OF THE PUPPETS.

+ TO THE EBITOB. Sib,— With your kind permission, just a few words m reference to the Schooner Creek squabble from a member of ths Adoration Society, m answer to so-called " Eatepayer," and the alleged pet-schema of Mr Chaytor'a. In the first place then I have to say that no attempt is being made to turn the water of the Pakaka Valley dowa Pembar'a road ditch and Schooner Creek, as the bottom of Pembar's road ditoh, where it leaves the big drain, is about two feet higher than that of the big drain, so that except m time of flood no water can reach the above sacred creek from that source. Now for the downright mismanagement and "pure cussadness" part of business. As "Ratepayer" alleges, Messrs Blackett and Wileon have indeed givan m reports and it would have been as well it "Ratepayer" had bad a look at Mr Btackett's report before quoting it, for m it be says, " if the engineering difficulties were not too great, then the Sandhill route wonld be best." Now, as to difference m distance. The measurement from the upper end of the flume to the confluence of Blind and Schooner Creeks is 29 chains, and that by way of Schooner Creek itself 63 chains, and not 80 as so-called " Eatepayer" would have it. There is a great noise made aboat loss on timber, but I can set " Batepayar's" mind at rest on that point, for a good part of the timber has been sold, the prioe being m all oases 16s per 100 feet, this being the coßt prioe, on the ground. Now for the puppet business. When a poll of the ratepayers waa made to indioate whioh note should be taken, that by way of the Sandhills had not one vote recorded m its favor, and it would be difficult to find a local body with sufficient cussedness to oarry out the timber work against such a vote. Better to tak« the routs that the ratepayers insist upon, tfaoagh a tortuous on 9, even taking into account the stagnant Smithsonian pools, than to saddle the ratepayers with a veritable white elephant for ever. Again, had the Sandhill work been carried out, the Blind Creek would every few months have had its coarse Btopped up with sand, entailing enormous expense on the ratepayer a. Now the persons, about eight m number, who still wish to oarry out the above difficult and expensive work, have no compunction m keeping open a gaping chasm m front of a widow woman's door, who is unable to fight for redress. In looking up the records of the Pioton Boad Board, I find that at a meeting of that body held at Tua Marina on the sth of April, 1884, that Mr Smith and three others agreed to delegate the powers vested m that body to the Pukaka River Board, to enable thorn to open up Blind and Schooner Oraakg. Someone must have had a following of puppets even m those days. I will oloie with the remark that it is only m tba unbounded confidence of a vary large majority of the ratepayers that Mr Chaytor and the Board derive power to cope with their many unpleasant duties m conneotion with this matter. Trusting that you will ventilate this side of the question by giving it publicity m your widely circulated papar, — I am, etc, Jesih Povfics. Tua Marina, July 22, 1893.

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