Correspondence. KAHUI ROAD.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 26 March 1895, Page 3

Correspondence.

KAHUI ROAD.

(to the editor.! Sir,—Ma-.y thanks for your for your full repoVt of the Parihaka Road Board proceedi is>s, otherwise I should have been in t-.-tal ignorance of the debate with reference to the above, because the chairman preserved a judicious silence on the matter after 1 took my seat. There was i.o clearing out at all after the previous meeting. Not only had 1 carefully inspected the road the day before, but I had to go and clear the ground for the school picuic to be held the next morning. Now, Mr Maxwell was well aware of this, and I am all the more astonished at him repeating the fiction at the Board meeting.—l am, &c, W.R.Wright. ROAD RESERVE. (to the editor.) Sir,—The income of the Tipoka Road is £7 8s lid—not £5 7s 2d, and nothing has been spent on this road for the last eighteen months whatever. —-I am; &c, -" W. R. Wright. PARIHAKA ROAD DISTRICT. (to the editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of the 19th you publish a return 'showing rates and expenditure on the roads in the Parihaka Road District. On the 22nd you gave another return' showing expenditure.of grants and other funds. The two are very conflicting, at- least with regard to the Ruake-e Road. In the first instance it shows expenditure at £5 10s in 92-93, and £6 in 93-94 : that is about correct. In the second return, the road is credited with an expenditure of £lO lis 7d in 1891, and £9 15s in 1898. This is not correct. About half of the £lO lis 7d should be debited to the Puniho Road, where it was spent, instead of the 5s shown, and about one-third of the £9 15s should have been debited to the Paora Road, which is not mentioned in the second return. When you read the two returns, it looks as if the Ruakere Road had £ll 10s of rate money, and £2O 6s 7d of grant 3, makiug in all £Bl 16s 7d spent on the roal siuce 1891; whereas there has only been about £l6 spent on the road since 1884. I object to the road being saddled with more than its due.—l am, &c, J. Caddy, Puniho, March 25th, 1854. . .

/[This return was laid before the Board when no exception was taken to it.—Ed. Times.]