NO. 6 WARD, MASTERTON HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 530, 31 July 1880, Page 2

NO. 6 WARD, MASTERTON HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

To the Editor of Diiw. Wiß'you oblige .bj aliowipg me space to correct an -error v cfommittQd by Mr-'..Donald,.'as Warden}iin;hisletter, whioh appears in your;publication of. the 2?tll inst. •;■ 'i i:-'. , Mr Donald writes— *' Th® balance due -to the Ward: on 81' st March; 1979, wat £3*6 Bd, and not £ll6O as itatpd'in the petition, "• TJje pptitiph' for separate lnalcea' no auch ' 'siinplj ■quotes the: figures. 'the Jlaaterton Highway bounty Council., The onus of accuracy, or otherwise,. lies' with the Highway, Board, and as that:bodyj",so r far,as the"ratepayers of No._ 6 Ward are aware, has never retracted their accounts,, .the ratepayers of No. ■ 6 Ward Were not only justified 'in quoting the figures furnished .by the Board, but. also, , in "believing them to. be'substantially correct. - Butj be; that as it may, I presume Mr Donald' dbea not 'doubt that' th» Board, whon furnishing'the account, believed it to be ,at least approximately oort reot; but, nevertheless, it withheld the' balance due to No. 6 ; Wardj while'another Wcrd was overdrawn to'-alarpr amount, Does Mr Donald' suppose that if the Board had not subsequently. challenged the accuraoy of its'own-'figures, tliat- that body would aiiy the less have withheld the balance due to No.'|6 Ward? .The arrears, whatever they are, extend over a ' !!»mber'Of v ! years, : showing, that--No'. 6" Ward was. systematically, mulct .of ..its income. V, J ■!. >. ! Wr Donald's statement of accounts ithat'_the; balance dp Nb, 8. Ward has, lyith scarcely any rogd-work to |Bhow - for 'it, been...steadily grpw.ing.j, jsmaller resigns., himself, ; w.ith iappa-I irent equanimity,uto' : the. prospeot of his 'Ward being, in debt at' the eid of the ifinancial .year. I,\ too/think'siioh a • coajtingenoy. extvemelj probable.if the Ward ;remainß ah integral part of the-Masterton ' iHitjhway pistrioti-'ljut T' cantjot take so • [philosophical: a the' 'prospective finanoial position:!'' .. r 'V ' Youri, Ac./ ' ~ 1 . • I Edwin' Mmedhh.