THE LATE LEVELS ELECTION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 1341, 7 January 1879, Page 3

THE LATE LEVELS ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF TH3 TIMARU HEBALS. Sib,—ln your report of the meeting held yesterday at the Washdyke, for the purpose of nominating members to serve on the Levels Road Board, the public are informed that very little interest appeared to be taken in the election. True, very little appeared to he taken, but I should like to state, for the information of Messrs Haw-Baw and Co., who have done great things for themselves in time past with their fellow ratepayers, money, that the appearance was not real. I think I may say that every ona of the six or seven ratepayers present, was thoroughly acquainted with the views of all his neighbors for miles, and came there as representatives of vast multitudes. Appearance, or no appearance, our determiuatioQ this time is to prevent the election of any new member of tbe would-be aristocratic crowd. Nobody representing the huge estate on the Point road is required, and I believe not one from that quarter shall again sit on the Board ; at leasi., not for some years to come. We ore almost unanimously resolved, also, to closely scrutinise every public action of the remaining high-flown element, and if they don't behave according to cockatoo etiquette, out they go, and in pop respectable " cookies " to fill their place. Another thing to be done is to curtail the lavish expenditure on vast estates, such as private roads, and other works from which the public derive no benefit whatever, and to spend more on public thoroughfares; also, to spend it on works that will prove pe-manent, and not liable to be carried away by every passing shower. Again, we intend to. dispense with every official who in himself, or by any reason ie of no use to the qistrict, and to give a decent salary to worthy officers who really do the work. In short, we have made up our minds to show that the Road Board are our representatives, and not we their servants, and come what will, the ratepayers in the Point ward, must, and shall do as they will with their own hard-earned cash. I think I have prettly clearly shown the resolutions arrived at by all my neighbors, as far as I have been able to reach them, and those who have not yet been aroused from their slumbers are cordially invited to the polling booths on Friday, when and where we shall manifest how much, or how little, interest we take in tbe election. I am, dec, Satbpateb. Waabdyke, 4th January, 1979.