CORRESPONDENCE.
WAIKARI HOSPITAL.
TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."
Sir. —In your issue of July Bth I no-, ticed a letter signed -."Omega," referring to an influential deputation that waited on the Waipara County Council, at their last meeting to explode a bombshell on the Council, and that ho wont to see how the councillors conducted' themselves. How ill at ease they would have been had they known the reason of his presence I I trust they acquitted themselves favourably in liis 6ight. Surely it would have been better taste had "Omega,' 1 as an apostle of Peace, subscribed his proper namel And now to deal with "Omega's" inaccuracies. Messrs Lochhead, McLelland, and Leach did not open the ball. It was done 'by Mr Starky in a short and fitting speech, followed by Messrs Burrows and Sloss, also from Omihi. Messrs Greig, Lochhead, Leach, and McLelland, from Stony hurst and Scar§ill districts, and Gardiner, from Modury also spoke. ' Messrs S. B. Gibb, Stonyhurst, and O'Oarrol, Woodgrove, and many others were present to the number of about twenty. Surely this was a fairly representative meeting, and not an effort from jßcargill, as "Omega" would infer 1 As regards the member of the Council referred to, I take that to apply to myself, and state here that his remarks are absolutely untrue. I never at any time favoured a hospital at Waikari in any form, but was prepared to sink whatever personal feelings I had on the subject, had I not found that the ratepayers whom I represented were solidly opposed to the scheme. As regards the small percentage of ratepayers referred to by "Omega," 1 am prepared to wager that it is more than half the county.— Yours, etc.. N. D. CAMPBELL. Motunau. July 9. TO THE EDITOR 01? "THB PRESS." Sir, —1 do not wish to indulge in personality, as some previous writers on this subject have done, as I think _ it serves no good, purpose. But I, like many moro in the county, cannot see tho necessity of building a hospital at Waikari or any other part of tue county at present. Seeing we are at death grips with a foul enemy, and our very existence is hanging in tiie balance, why not use every shilling we can spare to win the war, instead of erecting a costly hospital just for the benefit of the Waikari residents? For all these years the Waipara county has got on exceedingly ! well without a hospital, and I think we j car. postpone the building of such an I institution until after the war is over. ! Then, if the money is available and the i necessity exists, go on with the scheme. But "while this terrible war lasts, and the monetary demands are so great for the various funds for helping our brave fellows at the front, I think it very j selfish indeed to spend public money for j our own personal benefit in these trying times. Only think of our boys out in the trenches during a snowstorm like we , had the other day, enduring all the elements and all the horrors of war, then look at ourselves with every comfort—what a contrast! I say, drop the hospital scheme and help our brothers ia arms to win the war.—You re, etc., ALFA, i
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 5
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552CORRESPONDENCE. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 5
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