Featherston Road Board.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1808, 17 March 1886, Page 3

Featherston Road Board.

To the Editor of the Standard. In,* I write these few lines trusting the ratepayers ia the Awbea and Otarsia wards may read them, and that it will impress upon them the action of their wardens, at the last meeting of the Board. The report of the meeting states that these two working representatives of unopened conn try, bad roads and park tracks, most liberally offered, as •ooa ••)their respective wards’ sceounts were in funds, to lend the money of the ratepayers they represent to the County to make a road landing through country that goes through neither el their wards, but it does lead to Martinborongh. Comment on this is non rternary unless it were to point out the morale of it, wbieh I take it' have representaUv»« who have to go through the mud and Bended rivers to get to their houses and families, not dwellers in townships whose ideas are centred there. If the Featherston Boed Board is desirous cf lending the county their funds, let some of the wards come inward that have no new conn try to' open up ; some of those for ioetence whose warden* rated themselves—even unto giving the easting vote as done by the chairman—wages of five shillings for their day's attendance. The amount ia medett enough apparently ; but by the seme token no doubt a correct estimate of the valne of their days week. How men who are the owners of docks and herds and many brosd acres can be guilty of such a spirit of pettiness it is hard to eoneeivs. The amount is suggestive as being the sum paid at the time by Government to the unemployed. Wsa this tbe standard by whiab the pittance wae fixed ? I am, Ac., Batipatik.