AIRPORT BOARD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 92, 21 July 1944, Page 4

AIRPORT BOARD

Sir,—Feeling rather annoyed at Mr Canning's cheap witticisms in the report of the Borough Council's meeting re Airport Board, I' crave the space in your esteemed paper to offer another point of view. Mr Canning as a Borough .Councillor ought in my opinion have had a little better sense, than to fling cheap sneers at. the foresight and ability of the County Councillors in having the affairs of the County in such a healthy state. Perhaps the Pinus Insigntis plantation at Te Te.ko has had a little to do with that or helped. I also remind Mr Canning that the recent heavy floods have not left a good many of the farmers in the County in a very cheerful frame of mind or financial well being t which is liable to reflect on the business people of Whakatane, more especially, when certain of its City Fathers seem to think they have a say in what the County Councillors should do with funds so wisely provided, that they hold in trust for mainly a rural people. Mr Canning might recall a little episode of. a few years ago in the affairs of the farmers of this dis<» trict called Rail versus Boat in regard to the carriage of produce, mainly butter. The result of the controversy is old history now. But it left a nasty taste in the mouths of the farmers, on account of the activities of a certain element of business people of Whakatane. However we have a very big and up-to-date store on the premises of the Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Company ; well-run and doing a big trade and likely to do a bigger in the hard times ahead. Mr .Canning leave, sleeping dogs alone, they don't like noise. Get the "County Watch Dogs" to give you a few lessons in "Rural Economy." Rates and taxes are not a popular theme with farmers just now from the North Cape to the Bluff. Yours etc., FARMER.!