A QUESTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 235, 18 October 1878, Page 2

A QUESTION.

« To tfie Editor of the Akaroa Mail. Sir*-—As there are a good few young fellows about town who don't seem to have anybody to look after them, especially at nights, I would suggest that ono or two club-rooms should be provided for - fheip (it would be all the better if the . 1 rooms were under the charge of some of our enterprising citizens), and that there they might be. initiated into such useful and innocent pastimes as gambling for ; ; money, and such like accomplishments. I wish to ask if such.a plan of letting I puj. nice, young friends pass away tho rhours 1 6f night would be a good preparation for. the duties, if they have any, of j.the morrow, and;if by this they- would be ■trained to be faithful and conscientious in those , ), , Awaiting .your, favorable reply, I am r Mr Edjior,' yours, &c, "" . v 'til Vf •; A FRIEND, OF YOUTH.

ont of place, such hypercritical cant w> • have heard before. As the lines are very close and running where grading is needed nearly parallel, any school-boy standing on the opposite hill could easily see and understand that the grades are about unequal, while for convenience the old ' road is very much the better of the two. And in cost of construction and exchange the public Jhave everything to lose, and what would be gained? a more inconvenient "road, and money wasted. If the road proposed to be given was a much better one, and more convenient I should say by all means let us promote the exchange, but under the circumstances quoted I cannot assist to promote what is in my opinion a measure neither progressive nor of advantage to the district in any way whatever. Yours, &c, JOHN DUXBURY.