Some of Mr Bunny’s Past Services.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2092, 15 July 1887, Page 3

Some of Mr Bunny’s Past Services.

To the Editor of the Standard.

Bn,—l have read all the letters that have appeared in the Sunaab, trying to show the bmita the Waiiarapa has derived since Mr Banny earns to resile in it. Now, s few hi may enlighten the electors. Mr Bnnny’i first act was to bay Longwood. Hit not was to taka Feroaide from Mr St Hill, with a right of purchase. He then bought the whole of the plain above tbs Main road, shutting in all tbe email free hoUers, naacsly, H Burling, G Hodder, J

Tideweil, B and F Kelly, D Lambert and Loose Brother! ; aod the then residenta of * Faatbnetoo. all bought, expecting to pi eommonage for a lew bead of cattle, aoas to pot off the expense of fencing for a few yuan But, alae, the speculator had come. The order waa “fence or I will impound.” At that time there were no roada bat the Main Trank Boad, and that only partly made. We wanted good roada, and to do away with packing everything. Mr Carter onr U.P.C. , recommended na to get the Highway Act pat in fane eo ae to get the L 3 from the Oovernmeat lor every Ll taiaed by ratae. Greytown elected Wardens and levied an acreage rate, and got LS lor every Ll, not only getting roada, hot giving employment to thoee who required help until their land eoold keep than. We in Feathers ton elected Wardens, bntao rota was levied, Why? Tee, why 7 Became Mr Bonny waa chairman, and with other Wardens like himself owning large blocks of land, they decided not to levy a rate, thwa loaing the Government money to save .their own poekete. Thai Fcatheraton could lmt meka any headway for the want of eontreeta and the expenditure of pnblic money. F<»threaten at last woke np. Better men ware eleetad Wardena, bat too lata. The Ooverament wia bankrupt and the Ll ter Ll waa stopped. When Mr Bonny ported with his land, did he eat it np in ■mß sections eo that the working man could

get a ehanecto bay? No, it went in large hloaha, that ie the reason be is so poor, whish ha makes a boast of. Will some of his friends tall your reader* which ere th* hridgH end sections of loads which be was IvteuMßlil is getting ? I am, Ac., Panoses*.