BIT OF A BREEZE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 18, 10 July 1912, Page 3

BIT OF A BREEZE.

RIVER BOARD MEMBERS AGAIN. More Hot Air.

The meetings of the Waikato River Board are generally enlivened by raking comments, chielly arising out of the inclusion in the rating area of Aka Aka and other lands, which it is claimed W''l not only receive no benefit from the river scheme, but will actually sutler damage. Last Saturday the verbal warfare was continued. The controversy was projec ted by the 1 hairman (Mr Glass), " We don't want to strike a rate," he said, " but if the position is forced and a receiver is put iu he will have to strike a rate and take the whole thing over. It's a moral we are coming out all right. It's merely bluffing and you "—speaking to Mr Wily—"you are bluffing us all round." Mr Wily: Paying the; rate is not so impoitaut to us as preventing the channel being blocked. Mr llill said Aka Aka people would Lave to pay tin- piper, if they stopped this scheme blindfolded Referring to the resolutions passed at the Pukekohe conference, asking that 110 mcney be granted until au enquiry was held, Mr Glass strongly protested that the objectors iu his district knew nothing about the conference. " They should have been invited," he said. • I think," he added, '• tlia: it's a downright insv't to every member ol' the Board." Then you must take it as that !" retorted Mr Wily He added that he had desired to make the resolutions public but the conference decided otherwise lie went on to say that Mr Glass had stated that Mr McKinnou had been responsible for certain boundaries : but that Mr MeKinnon had denied. Then Mr Glass's imagination was so vivid that he said Mr West was responsible for the Aka Aka boundaiies but Mr West gave that an unqualified denial.

Mr H'U : I don't believe Mr Wily ; that's flat. Mr Glass : He (meaning Mr Wily) moans to fight and we will have to fight it out. Keeping this conference quiet was a most unmanly— Mr Wily (impatiently): Oh, don't talk nonsense. Mr Glass (hotly): I say it is unmanly to act as you have done as a member of the Board. Mr Wily: As a member of the conference I cov'd not do what I liked. The minutes were turned up and it was found that a resolution proposed by Mr Hill, and seconded by Mr West, had been carried adopting the map with the boundaries as marked. Mr Hill said Mr Wily was always quibbling. There was never any objection to Mr West representing Aka Aka and yet Mr Wily and Mr Hull came to one of their meetings and said Mr West did not represent the district. There was something rotten about the whole thing. Mr Wily said they might get a libel action out of what he was going to say— Mr Glass: I would have (lone it long ago if I could. Mr Wi'y (deliberately): Well you want nn instance of unfairness. Was :t TV.? a frau'i t.. •.v to those people of liuntlv T 'i.it t'fy would have t<■ j'.iv .v rates ;n <>••.!. : to drag in j •••■pie who wotm i' i'.tve t<< ] av rate* y.: n ;.,, «nr" bush lawyers J haw ever met. He 16 alway> quibbhug ab.i.;t matter.-, that have been explained Misatisfaction of everyone else. Hostil'ties were continued even after the meeting had been declared closed. Occasionally unpleasant things were said in quite a cr'm and not unpleasant manner.