WAIKAREMOANA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 8

WAIKAREMOANA

AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE EAST COAST. Sir,—That Sir Joseph Ward, the wizard of finance, and Sir William Kriiser, Minister of Public: Works have let down the good peqplo of the East Coast with n nasty jolt, is very evident the soreness being suffered from their experi. enci>. ?If theire is one place ram than another whore men of unassailable uprightness aro essential it is in Parliament, and more particularl- , - in Cabinet, and the people of the East Coast have grave reason to doubt whether they have been treated as they should: have been by Ihe nbovenomed gentlemen. There can be no question of a doubt, that there was a definite nledge given at the Hydro-Electric Conference Hold in Napier last. December that the Waikaremonna scheme would be started simultaneously «'i(h any other. Sir Joseph has now left Ihe Dominion, and in all probability will remain away, so it falls on Sir William to make good ''without any further shuffling" the biiulii)!,' wromise ijivpn lo the people, and of whose birthright he has been appointed tho custodian. Otherwise ho will very soon realise that thorc are still

yiauts in the land, aud that Iheii' areed is thai Ministers should bo made to ik us they would bo dono oy. Whilst bringing this great question of the development of tho Kasc Coast once more be--I'oru Cabinet, may 1 p«liit out that the benefit will accrue principally to those great soldier men \tlio Iwve made for tievc Zealand n name that is, and will continue to be for all time, respected the world over. Anxnes, wo take out hats off to you. A .nrgc number oi the.se soldiers" lire-stilling, and will continue to settle,' aloiig the Bast Const, and let Sir Williaia l'niser remember his first duty is to provide now, ut onee, good wads, a railway, and tlectric power for tlio men who took their job in hand ami carried it through Against almost impossible obstacles. The comparison with the tin-pot methods cf the Minister in dealing with his part (national development) makes us truly ashamed; ninl J fur oik- will never be satisfied until I ciui travel to Waikaremoaua by llin electric; railway, and in the same way visit my soldier friends all over the North island.—l nm, etc.. NAT. BEAMISH. Hastings, December IC, 1918.