ROAD BOARDS V. COUNTY COUNCIL.
{To the Editor of the Westport Times and
Charleston Argus.)
Sir, —It would indeed be well if your anticipation in a late leading article on Road Boards could be realised. We might then be doing something for ourselves, but then river boards would also be required. Why not at once go in for separation, have a county council, manage our own affairs, and come directly under the General Government ? Provincial Governments remind me of the middleman between the landlord and tenant iu Ireland—the very curse of the country, which the potato disease swept away. Oh, would that some other disease would sweep away the nuisauce of "middleman" Provincial Governments. Surely the merchants, &e., &c, of the Grey, Charleston, and Westport, are as capable of inana<nn<r our public affairs as the farmers Nelson and the Waimea, some of whom have learned "reading and writing" since they came to the country, besides having the advantage of being well posted up in local affairs. —I am, Sir, No COJTSERVATITE. Westport, Dec. 12.
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 428, 14 December 1868, Page 2
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174ROAD BOARDS V. COUNTY COUNCIL. Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 428, 14 December 1868, Page 2
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