The Pahiatua Star. (Published Tuesdays and Fridays.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1888.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 173, 17 February 1888, Page 2

The Pahiatua Star. (Published Tuesdays and Fridays.) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1888.

<K Motidav a double jioll will Ik? taken itiii for the election of five Licensing Him dinners and the oilier on the l ; ►! 1, . n projio- il submitted by the Town Board. EWren ean<l ,U:. s havi 1 ■ n nominated to the mit -1 lie iiltsucct fill, hut it is iiujioslc to h i.'ini an opinion ns to the th it will r? •• -i\. the cold shoulder, it sieius to us that there will be some i.art aork on Monday, and if every iivh .able vote in the district is not rec 1 il will not be the fault of those who are taking a hading part in the election. We have no desire to point out the merits and demerits of the nmhdates, hut that there is u wide difference between the capabilities of i-miio ns against the others must bo j.it. it to anyone whose eyes are open. It i- a farce to think that any man is gisn) enough to jerk into pbblic posi- ; v.e want men who understand what they are iK-ing elected for, und who, winn elected, will not require oit'iile instructions Isfore they aet. The important duties the Licensing C mimt tee have to fulfil should cause electors to re tied be fore recording their v. *t* ■*; it should not merely be a quusti n of whether this or that man is to el a license, but w hether the Act is to l- tJiui: ieti r. d with intelligence. We ohj t alt” •. ther to the system of run- • i ilm.iti-s to ser\ > -personal ends, hut there is no auestiou that this is 1 and unless very great care is exercised a Committee may Ik l elected whose ideas are all centred in one direction ; in fact whose minds arc made up even now. Let us Ik? wee in our generati u and select out of the eleven candid t . the five who are most likely to inete out justice all round; who will ive lieeii-es to tln-c who are entitled to them, and withhold them from tl ose who are not. As regards the loan poll we have very Little to say. Tin- will Ik- the third time the Hoard has put the proposal Uif<>ru the ratepayers. and if not carried now it will prove thut proper precautions las on the two previous Occasions) have not been taken to bring ratejiayers to the p. 11. That the proposal may lie carried i* our earnest wish, and to this end we tru-i tl . n. niliers of the Hoard will w ork most energetically.

Mb t'arwi. makes a capital county re* l -vntative. lie is u thorn in the i listif tliosi lnemlers who have been m the habit of ruling rough-shod over th* I'all i*. tun Hiding. Amongst many j on*er things brought under the notice of tin Ci •uncil mi Tin* -day by Mr Crewe » tin* fact that Clann. H<l of tin* Counties Act had not lx*en complied witli. The clause reads :—•• Separate nr. .iinta shall be ki pt for each riding ; u: tlie county of tbe income and expc .dilan them f in each year, and to the sai l account shall 1*» placed the amount apportioned to each riding of tbe couuly in inii. which shall be exJ [Hti'h-d in w. rk< in siu-h ruling. 'ln , camV. fr* ' l any cause in any year, an all s-ation as I werein before provided of tlie pre port mm: ate part of the county lie me cannot U> made among the rulings. ai.dany riding shall receive m Mich year anV uu.ru or Lao tiiau us k

due, then such riding shall, in succeeding allocations of tlie county income among the i .in:*;, receive from the t 'ouucil sut .i mo: e* o. diuimisheil proper.lun ot u.-ome ivs may be just.'' Notwithstanding the ple::> language contained in this clause, the Chairman was avi rse to giving instructions to the Clerk that separate riding accounts be kept; but Mr Crew® stuck to Jiis point and eventually gaiued it. M hat will he the result at far us tbe I’abiatua Hiding is concerned ? The Council will have a big score to make up. as it is as plain as noonday that money that .should Imre been allocated to tins district has for years been spent elsewhere. Under the old system of keeping accounts it was very easy for the Council to hoodwink ratepayers ; but now that separate accounts for each riding have to be kept, a somewhat different state of things is likely to exist. Heally it is astonishing that the Government auditors did not long ago make the discovery that the accounts of the Wairarapa North County Council were kept in an illegal manner.

Col*vcn.lor \V. 11. Hcetham Ims an idea that the Wairarupw North County Council is the only body capable of undertaking the construction and maintenance of roads. He is welcome to his opinion, hut we may inform him that the ratepayers throughout the length and breadth of the Hush hold very differi nt views. Mr Hcetham is alarmed at the thought of handing over main roads to the tender mercies of *• small Hoards," but he forgets that these insignificant Hoards are composed of men with far greater brain power than those members of tbe Council wlio have for years been mismanaging its affairs. Our experience teaches us that the Fahiatua Hoad Hoard, with its Engineer, could do more honest work on roads in twelve months than the Council could in twenty years. Small Hoards, indeed ! The Council is the drone, and the Hoad Hoards tlie working bees ; but the drone takes the largest share of the honey.