MR COURTENAY ON THE WARPATH.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 503, 6 September 1890, Page 2

MR COURTENAY ON THE WARPATH.

[to the editor.] Bib,—Hava you heard of the rank folly of Which the Ormond ffeed go*rd has made i'a ill I he perpetrator ? - of borrowing a certain sum of money. Will intslljgent ratepayers put up with this monstrous miscarriage of their true interests ? Should they not rise in angry tunjult and sweep these crying enormities from the face of the land ? This is a fair young country, which one might well be pround to boast of as his own, but its affairs ara so dreadfully mismanaged that it seems we might live till the last blast of the great trumpet and yet be destitute of all hope of reform. If a host of petty bodies are to be permitted to tinker with borrowed money, to the lasting detrimsnt of all who have to pay the taxes, no improvement can be expected. If the money were handed over to the County Council some good would accrue, but we might just as well throw the money in a mudhole at once as give it to the Urmond Road B ard to melt into thin air. There would be a chance of its being recovered at some future time from the mudhole, but we might as well think ot carvlpg a slice of green cheese from ths moon as of getting any return from the Ormond Boad Board. Are we going to stand thia wretched folly, or stamp it out, smash it or scarify it, as wo would crush a nutshell, with hobnailed boots ? It puts one in fever heat to think of such a body.—l em, etc., D. CoUBTXNXV, Ormond, September 1,