The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN. SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1892.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 34, 6 August 1892, Page 4

The Ohinemuri Gazette AND UPPER THAMES WARDEN.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1892.

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The public; hydraheaded and fimce as an Egyptian overseer is a hard taskmaster. That /'great wooden god Demos who looks so wise and knows so absurdly little, is quite unaware of the truism ex-nihilonihil fit, and sternly requires his bricks to be made without straw or, anglice, his roads, 'iand;i\public> f iworksfj, withouj;money and without price. Talk to the young commercial masher,/:coming; trippingly along the footpath of a country township, who'happecs-toiget a half-inch of mud on his delicately shod hoofs, and bai Jove what a beastly local body you must Have here, not to asphalt these confounded sidewalks ; meet the young damsel in low shoes and embroidered fixings who j gives a feminine. swear at tue still waters! ami fgre^tt pasture's whe'reln and vWheVeoiil Bhe»-perforco; perambulates, and note the look of pert disgust;; accost',-if you dare, the first carter you meet with a waggon loaded with about four tons of goods, having a 2|inV tire; arid hauled by a team of six to ten equine giants.; or ask the average coach-driver or horseman "howare the roads to-day old man?" and you, it at all delicate-minded and amenable to "language" will be sorry you spoke. The public do not understand, in fact, that they are?a speoies of limited liability company —that calls are periodically made upon them directly and indirectly towards the cost of construction and maintenance of 'works which are beneficial to the greatest number, and that when the money thus realised is duly expended, that there is no known alchemical method of creating more, and nothing more can be done unless further calls upon their individual resources are made. It was plainly shown atS Thursday's Gounty meeting that the revenue of the Gounty is not sufficient, to keep the roads and bridges, &0., in; good order with the present heavytraffic. This is a fact that has got toj be looked straight at between the two. eyes, and it has several causes. The

first and main one is this, that during th (time when Sir Julius Togel's borrowed milltooß^-.!Jiterib/lQpeainj|;' up the of the colony, that this (portion ;<6f it ?was tinopenaWe and unapproachable and consequently received nothing of the general benefits then poured so p'lenteously from the ■cornucopia of Oapel'Court and "'Change Alley. Although we, the denizens of Ohinemuri, have to day to take our part with the rest of the colony in re.paying these moneys in principal and yet, locally, we are reaping •no benefit from the moneys expended. Then again we are anticipating,' and must anticipate, revenue. We are and must be, in the nature of a goldfielu, speculative in' the matter of opening up the country. We' make a road here or there, and lo! at the end of it is a payable mine and from the revenue accruing we pay for the road and its interim cost for maintenance, orlo! the,mine clo es down, the road decays and the money is lost. We are constructing public works now that will or will, not^ not, repay - bye-and-bye; we are.discounting the future for them, and although we 'have good assurance taat the future will well warrant Jtheir construction' yet that assurance is n ot a ca B hablft asset at tho paying desk of the B a nk of New .Zealand. We say the Government is in duty bound to assist us, in*the fostering of this most premising gpldfield. The T>rospacts of Ohinemuri as a bullion producer are unequalled in the whole colony.. The success.of the district will be a great factor in the-success of fhe province and its capital town, and will greatly assist in the eyes of European capitalists in keeping up tho credit of' the whole polony, also:' L )oTcine"afc the> matter in the light o f a paying invfiat- ! ment it would well repay the Government; to errant a Ru'ffioient sum of money to propevly urtt oaly 1 the present laid off roads "but new trunk roadq and prospecting tracks all along these rnna;Bs. Many "who may read this arfiolo will say •" well,' if it is such a goor! spec, why not, borrow and invest 'the'tboney yourselves." "Aye. there is the rrib. ' We are virtually debarred from borrnwirisr. llf we attempt! to approach c^overn™ I ment under the twin borrowiriar ■ Acts of the Stout-Vogel regime'we 'have ito show that permission is g'Jveh by three-fifths of tihe Jrat^vpayers. : !Ra*e-:; payers are said to incl'iyie ;fajt,hough jthis'tisial: moot; pointy Fall;'hoiclers'of s miners' rights, and on.-fihs .Opunty roll are a great nurabp-r of names of holders who are all over the colonies and utterly •unavailable for votinsr purposes. And as those who do not vote are virtually Tesrardefl «« voting against a loan it is shown that such an attempt would-be fuHle. r At, this crisis Government must b« calle } upon to assist, and we trust and believe thtft our present and late members. Colonel Fras«r and Mr Oadman, will see and, appreciate our financial position and advoo^te our just cause to good Bnd deserved effect. 1 r