THE PELORUS GUARDIAN TUESDAY, APRIL 22 1890. After the Event.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 25, 22 April 1890, Page 2

THE PELORUS GUARDIAN TUESDAY, APRIL 22 1890. After the Event.

Goveenments, like individuals generally, become wise after an event takes place, and it is very seldom that the wisdom of a certain course being adopted is seen until a certain amount of mischief has been done or loss sustained. Such, we believe, to be the case with regard to this district, and the diggers and settlers may toil on under the greatest difficulties, but not until they have clearly proved that it would be in the interests of the colony that good roads and means: of communication- ire necessary for ‘ the development of our mining resources nothing will be done in the matter. Notwithstanding the retrenchment going on, there are hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pounds spent annually from which no return can be expected, but, if properly and wisely spent in assisting our mining population, it would double itself many ■ TTT - ii .A—tvu the principle"of people helping themselves, but when a Government is so centralised that the hungry grasp of the Colonial Treasurer is laid on all the available revenue from one end of the colony to the other, it is only reasonable to expect that those districts which have been neglected in the past, and which would give a good return for the money expended should receive at ■ least a fair share of any surplus in the general revenue. It is impossible for Road Boards to do all the work, required of them in places where very little public money has been expended with the limited means at their disposal. Of course, in districts where all the principal roads were made by the Provincial or General Governments it is an easy matter for the Road Boards to keep them in a good state of repair; but in the case of this district, substantial aid is required to assist the Board to complete a lot of new works which should have been done when the borrowed millions were being squandered, and for which the settlers'in this district have to contribute towards the interest, although they have not received any benefit from the expenditure.