SUMMIT ROAD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 13

SUM T I M ROAD.

REPLIES TO * TRUST.

„is financial TROUBLES

(J £ll forwards the following Jfr .' n rep iy to that made by the Trust (published yesterr ' g):— publicly thanked Messrs , and Charlewood, and took them for their financial help, . the ir staftement is going to increase my difficulties and The publishing of the statenot help the Summit road fI know they will have the Ciy ° {a great may people in iSLhurcb, while many will say that l jiijjgancCj and that the work go on better without me. All Ty, been said before, and it is ?»« disheartening. ui hope Mr Acland will take my ~uin the spirit in which he will Derby, and that Mr Weston *!!! .Jjiye them in the spirit in which TLm ho'o a lon ß P utt * 1 need not to Mr# Charlewood's sporting Mflir the new tearoom could not Infed until the stone walls were k jhe (tone must be got for the build- * Tie road to the stone quarries was ?L« impossible for traffic in wet ntier- So I had to put the road in and finance the cost in the best y'l eonld. The Heathcote County £Lj| havo had £3OO worth of pervalue added to the road between J?ftfi!ie and the Kiwi. I invite the JLji] to have a valuation made and I trtient .at loast two-thirds of# the added to the Summit Road Trust, nj, wold be but fair and just. "fhett the mortgage of £4OOO was 'gjud on Cracroft Hill through Itynel Stndholme thcro was an legation put on my shoulders to mako U)Ho|ue earn the money to pay interalso to provide for the extra UMit required by second mortgage to jrf He building, and to provide some o «rat for wages. What was Ito do pier these circumstances! The old laiooili, I knew, would not command (I bpiness needed to increase the tyinf r So I had to got into the new fi upstairs. Already it is proving lam not a bit too optimistic, tin tan witness to the patronage last fklay, when we had not enough seatj( I am confident Hlit tfte increased business added to llTlkahe by the new room will bo wt than sufficient to provide interim the. .mortgage and second mort. pp, which is £SOOO. As to h Interest on the overdraft, lileb is guaranteed by a number of i; flommit road supporters, this jipild out of the profits of the Sign of 111 Kim, which has always provided interest, and I am confident, will to do so. The difficulty is fcpitojij's Bush, and I bolieve my plans kttet will soon put that on a selfgifting basis, which is as much as 1} b» expected from it for some years. B». vital asset of Kennedy's Bush is PthQnse; I saw the need for putting tjere fifteen year? ago. . In 1913 jji tate"Mr Masßey, who always lent a ijajathetic ear to my appeals for the |pit road, granted-me £150; I arpjjej with Messrs J. and W. Jamieson Stance the balance, which they did 1$ per cent., redeemable at the rate p3O a year. Without that house, pody's Bush would be of little value like public, and the reserve of no Hi to the Trust.' Let me here rourk that the Trust was initiated enidrby me, and that the Bill forming w'Tnmt was passed at my personal imri tq the Son. the Minister for iWOfr Mcleod. •, of the Kiwi Reserve is a ijjfowed hill of about 8} res. I ;W}d its purchase in 1008, so my Ml *ill see that I was looking a way ahead. It was producfjfllJWysnue, and was not likely to, HsPJS, with plans undor my arm , r®^® pßy * n pocket (no bank!iHl%rot;,Qr committee to help me, fW® 111 were hostile) I started out MWlflfant faith and much enthusiP W build there. Kindred spirits I took a big personal PW rtjk [ was summoned, for J? Wtetfj *nd because I ooiild not 2JJ W money in time, two orders JW wwiwd in the Magistrate's Court jfty taprllonment. This wag while It® ''WW member of Parliament for My Qeorge Gould sadwith one tg help me over iVWMjjlty, and Mr A. W, Beaven the To their credit be it said, both ,'Ziii i Shaven had been sub? .SfW wppertero ijj building the Sv the time th- did this. I and will never forget Mr * Beaven for tijeir great SSfrW that I had no right to l2»«? y the seven sections, the Of whieh into the hands pi MS'Vjwed catering firm would have Bigp of the Takahe, as it MwjMWWI to build a huge tearoom isSJj WMwuenth the window!, which Woeked a most beautiful ,I*l,l M»a«l bringing competition fti* a!?®® wr «6Hed the plans to HiU and the Takahe. liidn V, was Bav ed bv Messrs J. T. Sutton, B, I). p ' im ßoii, and others, and I 'M i b y Colonel Studholme at a w the Trust for what I had in getting done. ' "the statement, the public Ijo. °® *°W> in fairness to me, that Kntti ® personal responsibility ,| M .8 waggon on to the road Sbjl-.j ® ® t o 0n ° for the building. This jL., odd, in addition to the K> jJ"' shoeing, etc., and wages for j . this I had to g find w ' ien the Trust's ijj-. ? Dn d Was all spent—money for I wmi if J? 88 '®' and others —and the | - considerably, I was con- i IBii> fi ' or wages. I called ! Mie Clifford in my difficulty, W. a moment's hesitation, I oheque for £3O, and so . er the trouble. Without the i tf tonm w ould have been impossible, I 'Wed t' avo ear ted the stone j building; for the costs | -Py ae > Gould, Guinness, %1»«» B v?° ky me, although I have j through two firms' help, the price of j fcno como w jj en j£ r Acland, | o ?s' and Weston will ] "hllvniM- t they have had some WftuMi lf® the Takahe. j tylSi!' ean h°me without j 4|t j.jj., regard to their flnan. Uts s ' ee P a 30un d sleep, Win v 9 a load of debt, *'fa Tk. P e made more difficult for m./ Bce of their pnblio state, i !!*J B ° consider they h making it, but, in doing %*ks £ i a man with difficult 'S dtM « r Wdy beset with troubles, which way to turn W&r he is per'Mrthw. power of pfoeeeds of his efforts are in t vajqe," h -.. 'lieu 300,000,000 gallons IjKjvW®'. transported by rail in JP*