WANTED TO KNOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13226, 11 July 1906, Page 3

WANTED TO KNOW.

Sir,—lt will l«? psiwßixl «* » greet farenr it -.you will alto*? an old'-pioneer of **(!«• mont in this benighted ''portion of WaWemat* to put. « question to th* chairman of <h»» County Council through t»«» medium of your far-reaching column*. About a doiea at niggling settlers ere located lift* it » place railed " Sunny-side," on the wtwa ivank of the attentat* Harbour. ■It is safe, I think, to nay that never * Mid ha* be»» turned or sixpence spent by our Council to help' us make road* and very necessary bridges within th» last 20 year* anywhere o«a' our si Jo the harbour within seven miles. Now, sir, wo read to-day in the Minute •that 10 guineas has been donated; hr our councillors for a technical college, and »tw» 10 go towards sending some exhibit tothe K\hibition. If this had baan an accu- \ rate model of some of the track* pawing lop roads in odr district I would subscribe niy. v V M*lf willingly. What we want to know, however, is whether th«« "donations" are. privately from. «br representative* or -are they taken from tho hard-earned money of the ratepayers? If the former, air, »«'.■ apology is tendered beforehand and high ad-' , miration expressed of our impulsively gener- : ous member*. Otherwise little more neat} !» said, only to protest, not so much regarding these small !<ums given, it may be, ■ to deserving objects, but against file vicious* * system of donating other people'* money, every penny of which may be urgenly needed to lift at niggling settlor? out-of the mud . an unmitigated "slough of deSpond." ' .< Kiverbead, July 7. UICHD. illB9» .• • -