CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 79, 9 March 1883, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

; HIGHWAX?VAKD ADi^M- ■■ ;. : : ;.y , / : ( jji|iMiENT&^ i. Ji ,, i .. „i y (TO THB EDITOR OF THEj STANDARD. ) Sir,— pan .you ; say Why the.; adver." tisements frona the Maflaw.aTuHighway Board are, not inserted in";he Standard? .As. one of a very large number of the public, who see ino.qiber .paper^ I am disappointed at not seeing tenders i .from that bod 7,-^-1 .am, &c., : ; ; , ...-, ;t , :. . Ratepayer j $toney r (Creek , March «6.. . . . [We may state that the Mariaveatu Highway Board has. never ;ofiered to piyelthe i; . Standard any advertising .since its start. Some time ago we wrote ,tp ; the chairman asking, if. we had permission to copy certain advertisements. Hesajd the matter rested with the Board, bob that personally he should oppose the application, on the plea o* economy under the circumstances of the Board's distressed financial condition, with which we have every sympathy,., We question, however j if economy is served by ignoring the p*per with the largest" circulation m the district. But we are not going to quarrel, recriminate, abuse, or sob, oser the j matter. > We^i npvr ,qffer to ioßertthe Board's advertisempnts gratuitously m the interest of our readers, until such time as the Board's excheqner is .more plethoric than at pre* sent it -unfortunately -is. With an accumulation of unpaid and long overdue claims^ against it, and very large bank overdraft, its indiscriminate refusal of all applications for local expenditure under the plea ot extreme impecuni. OBi'ty, appears almost jußtiSable, beiag indeed virtually imperative, — Ed. M.