CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 243, 8 December 1900, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by our correspondents.] * OAKCKA ROAD BOARD. 10 THE EDITOR. .Sib,—The remarks of your Kara correspondent re the above Board are eomewhat misleading. These are the : facta Of the case ; some time since the Board invited applications for a clerk wit to combine the duties of J Betaming Officer, Collector and Clerk, • without extra remuneration, the late , -:Betarning Officer, with others applied ~lor (he position, and Lis application -' Mug unsuccessful, it did not need a '- logician to conclude that his services •k Returning Officer would net be ''"■ again, needed.- It apps&is, however, that according to the Act regulating ,; these matters, written notice should Slave been sent him to that effect, this -waa not done, as nobody in connection '' vita the Board knew anything about

such a stipulation. Ibis mere technicality kas according to your correspondent given .rise to "ihe quetti n is, who ifl the Returning Officer of the Oakura Boad Boaid?" To this as ■artien, I nnheaitsttingly reply that he, 5 and healeue, u endeavouring to di) "I >corer this male's nest, there are not, I '•" lbelieve, six persons in the Oakura /..-Bond, district who cate one iot» *. whether this uncontested election was i' conducted in accordance with the -"■trirt letter of the law, the ratepayers ?» a>; a body prefer justice and common ; MB*?, to law, and if '■ Tonr Own" * iwrapfr upon raising himself in the V -esteem by such little absurdities as he is aadly mistaken In his \ r calculations, and will have to ear*j Mark itj '• another failure." Vita re- '{ gird to the subsidy of £IOO, I, as a %._ ratepayer, think that the proposal of Board to equally divide itisexf'.' .tnmely fair, boo some people never ¥ mam satitfied, and I believe nevsr will tLhB, ihe malcontentß are asking that I .'-fke whole £IOO be spent on the upper of the Boad, whicii really meins fk that five or six may use it, whereas if BiTOent as proposed, all will use it and jpVbenefit by ib. The motto of some people §£Jaeems to be "every man for himself:" ft IThia may or may oot be alright, bat I P certainly thiak that it would be for the l"]public good if in these local, affairs their should be "one and all." In £ooaclusion I would suggest that "your L'own correspondent" should use bis taiwte for the furtherance of this sentient, instead of trying to s'aow f-dJscoi xJ. Should he do so I can assure Shim th.xe not only the Oakura iload tat the Oakura district will grateful to jour Koru correal epondent." -I am, etc, \ Jr FBASk H Clerk aad Returniug Officer, 0.K.13. I' -: S.TO STAND THIS SE4BON AT BELL r; BLOCK AND NEW PLYMOUTH-