CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16258, 8 July 1918, Page 9

CORRESPONDENCE.

POTATO BLIGHT,

TO THE EDITOR Off "TUB PKESS."

Sir, —Your local in this morning's paper with regard to potato blight is somewhat misleading in this respect: Mr C. S. Howard is not chairman of the Agricultural Committee, but was only acting so for this meeting. Again, the credit for finding out the fact that ! potatoes planted more .than four inches deep are immune from blight is due to Mi' Martin, chief agricultural instructor' for the district. Mr Howard wishes the above correction to be made. —Yours, et °'' RETCHINGS GRANT. Supervisor. July 6th. PROPOSED HOSPITAL AT WAIKARI. TO THE EJIITOB OF "THE PHESS." Sir, —Tho agitation that has been going oil in this quiet corner of Canterbury seems to hare reached its final stage m the large and influential deputation that waited on the Council on Saturday last. Having received an intimation that a boml>shell was to be exploded on the members of the Council, I went along to see how they would conduct themselves under so trying an ordeal, Messrs C. McLelland, W. Leach, and R. Lochhead opened fire on behalf of the Scargill district at very short range, with what they believed to be poisonous gas, in the form of accusations that th e Council had called a meeting in the middle of harvest (February 12th), and that about fourteen people could not attend who did not want the hospital.

. The chairman did not even need to put on his gas helmet, but quietly breathed upon the sulphurous fumes until they appeared to be nothing but harmless mist.

Mr George Gardner, supported by the comforting presence of Mr J. O'Carroll, then opened out with Big Bertha. His lyddite amounted to a statement that the chairman, with all his experience of conducting business on local bodies; had gone about the matter in a manner that was unconstitutional, as after discussing the question at the Council meetings for four or five months, decided to go on with the proposal, when one member of the Council (who had never before raised an objection) was not present. Knowing the generous natures of both the above gentlemen, I feel sure that they cannot understand what the Maternity Home will mean to men <.f small incomes, or they would be the first to endow such a needful institution.

Surely, after all the strife and newspaper correspondence, some better understanding will now prevail after the explanation given to these gentlemen oy Mr Evans.

I cannot believe that a man like Mr Lochhead could be in earnest in asking the whole Council to resign becauso they would not bow down to the wishes of a small percentage of the ratepayers. In all times, and/especially now", let us all be united, and, if necessary, make a sacrifice, and do the very best for the whole community, irrespective of locality.—Tours, etc., OMEGA.

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