ROAD BOARD MATTERS.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 28 August 1894, Page 3

ROAD BOARD MATTERS.

(to the editob.) Sir, —I somewhere read—it may be considered an axiom that a logical conclusion is always a sound conclusion. Now, at the last meeting of the Boar*, we had two very glaring instances of illogical conclusions. After the Cape drainage question was discussed, .the amendment "That Mr Quickenden get notice to close the drain he cut across the road" was carried, against the motiott " That no steps i>Q taken until a Drainage Board is formed." As you yourself pointed out, the adoption of the motion was the only logical way out of the matter. Because, unfortunately, the party who asks the closing of this drain is in precisely the same box, having cut a drain across a road and brought water never flowed before without the sanction of the Board. I therefore hold, looking at it from a purely Road Board member's point of view, and without " fear, favour, or affection," that if Mrs Crisp and J.' Fleming be requested to close up their main drains, those members of the Board who carried the amendment will have to support this request, and thus cause very great damage to the adjacent lands, besides perpetrating a great injustice. Then, again, we are all well aware that the Opunake pound, although a legal one, is not in a fit state for cattle, a 3 there is no board to inform people the aniuunt of fees pay-

able. Now, the ranger was kept on, and if he takes any cattle to Opunake, the owners, unless they are “ new chums,” will sue the Board for damages—and get them, too. Thus, Mr Editor, we have the truly pleasing spectacle of employing a man to run the Board into a crop of lawsuits, while he escapes. The ratepayers can hardly bo expected to applaud this decision.—f am, &c., W. R. Weight.