A COMPLAINT FROM TE AROHA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 5

A COMPLAINT FROM TE AROHA.

V; Sir,—l; would crave space from, you* in your : valuable paper for a few. remark's on 'the way our/paternal ruhsVsome of our; tourist presorts. ;'' I -was orde>red'..by '"my! doqjkor'.;to:; visit Rotpru'a'yfor,.a certain'; comi plaint, : ; : but in-course of' conversation ; .with' ai: : i hoy.advised' m0 ; -tb; visit 'Te ; Aroha-'; to driiik' ; its i mineral .waters. . . Having, a few days ;to sjiareltook his advice, and found the waters Iwere just {what Irequiredi But jUstfanoyiniy. uttor disgust at riot being.able to procure,a pamphlet of any kind 1 at the. Tourist: Depart.meht.j: no . information whatever, only what 'you paid .the doctor-7s. ; 6di a visit.for;..,Lwas :.told by'. the courteous clerk' he ; expected ,the Department would supply pamphlets on'the ■waters some time, but.he did-tiot. know when.; Now, 'sir, while, the colony's money is spent ;is ! 'a'"costly';'tea-house,'" information':-' of' the', 'kind' I';'required 1 ' was,'.totally j absent.-There were, hundreds of .yisitors the same as : my- • self, andl'can assuro you there .wero'prayers' ' loud arid heartfelt at this kind of' manage-' l-merit'of ■' one of ' the 'best .assets'of • the- colony:' : i *1: also .inoticed-jyoung -people, employed whoso might. bn well .filled .by. elderly" colonials who would be only ..too glad of tho . job,: such, as: taking .tickets at the baths,. ; but I .suppose there -.is the .usuaL Government: -"pull,", and ..tliei.-.qoquer • thofco; things ,arfe?inq'uired into the better}for the Dominion. After t-ho orderly .way the; :Rdt-orua r streets are conducts,. found'neither.law. nor order here. -..There)did not 'appear to tie ;a policeman in, the '.'place. . It was just as yon ' please in the matter" of : vehicular traffic. ' The stables appear to be cari'ied on in the main street.- I counted no fewer, than twenty, traps and coaches standing'in the-street." tdo not know; who is run-, ning th 6' place'; but the management is not less than' a" disgraced , : ItVmight- siiit'the ;H6ri; James Jl'Gowan, but in no other part of :the; Dominion Me l seen such a -state -"of affairs', .and,l .hoj«; some member of Parlia-, inienfciwill inquire .into ..this matter when-Par-;. liament' meets. .!•: am., asking: you - .to/insert: ithis from a sense of public duty—l am, : etc., TRAVELLER. •To 'Aroha, r;.:Cy: ; ; , January i, 1909.- - f •