CORRESPONDENCE. UNKNOWN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1910, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

UNKNOWN

[Our correspondents' opinions are their own; the- responsibility of editorial ones makes suflTieient balliisr for tlie editor's shoulders.]

To the Editor. Sir, — Looking through the list of donors to the Athletic sports 1 see that the tradesmen, as usual, have put their hands in their pockets and helped handsomely. Tn vain I lokoed for the name of some of our well-to-do settlers—men who hoast so much about their interests being bound up in Levin. The School Committee has just given the children a picnic at the lake, and hero again the bread, meat, lollies, prizes, etc., were donated by tradesmen. In vain I lookonce more for the names of the "men of means." A little while ago a wealthy settler was asked to join the Boating Club. He replied that he was no boating man, and that he had mo interests in Levin. Xow, a ftw weeks before he said to four or five gentlemen : "I want to see Levin advance, for, you know, it is to my interest to see if grow, for T own a lot of property here." At a recent public meeting another of this class spoke at length on the growth of Levin, and quoted an array of figures: vet this same gentleman gets all his goods from Wei ington. even to a broom handle. There is no need for me to enlarge. The list of donors to the school picnic and the Athletic sports speaks well for the tradesmen, but the absence of the names of the men who are making their wealth out of the place show that tliev are not at all "Microtis. They are living for self.— Yours lhtc " TRUTH. —BBW———f