LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 9

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

WILLIAMS PARK. Sir—A paragraph appears in yesterday morning's issue to the cffect that it was stated by the Mayor at the City Council meeting that steps had been taken, without success, to recover from the Eastbourne .Borough Council the sum of money promised by that body towards the purchase of "Williams Park." Either this statement is incorrectly reported or Mr. Luke has been misinformed.

l'ho amount promised by tho Eastbourne Borough Council has always been and is still available for payment to the Wellington City Council. No official communication in relation, to "Williams Park" has ever been received by the Eastbourne Borough Council from the Wellington City Council, unless a conference between the Deserves Committee of the City Council and the Eastbourne Ferry Board in November, 1914, comes under such category. This conference, I may state, referred solely to a demand by the Reserves Committee of the Wellington City Council for a proportion of the traffic receipts of the Eastbourne ferry service, or an annual contribution therefrom. In this relation my council made the most reasonable offer it was possible to make. I say nothing as to the point whether the Reserve Committee should expect any offer at all. My object is merely to make clear the fact that the Eastbourne Borough does not repudiate, and is prepared to meet at any time, any obligations entered into by it in respect of "Williams Park."—l am, etc., W.. J- ORGAN, Mayor of 'Eastbourne. Wellington, March 5, ,1915.