CORRESPONDENCE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 February 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

[Our correspondents' opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial ones makes sufficient ballast for the editor's shoulders.]

ADVANCE. I,F.YIN!

To the Editor.

Sir, —As a newcomer to Levin, 1 have been reading with interest the news about the Horowheuua Development Association. "When 1 got here in October they were all a blowing andi a. growing: in December they-grew tired; in January sleepy: and; this month they are not to be heard even snoring. Persistence, as you yourself have said in your

leading columns, is what a progress

V movement- like this cue needs i:> * make it really useful. Tt is no good setting up a public meeting and Appropriate cheers unless a good deal of appropriate work follows the , cheering. There was plenty of go in the committees at first. hut what are they doing now. Prime egg-« Hardy, and Bullfinch Charlie, and the Closer Settlement people, all seem half dead. "Why can't someone put a pin in 'em. and make 'em get going?— Yours etc., WATTING FOR A LEAD.

MR GROVER AND THE "MUCK-

BAKERS."

To the Editor.

Sir,—l am afraid that in the language of the Psalmist "the iron has entered into his soul," for Mr Grover's letter, in which he speaks of some or your correspondents as "persons who can only he termed 'muckrakers,' comes with very had taste from the point of view of Christian charity, nnrl is in striking contrast to the sisterly spirit of "Only a "Woman's" letter. Before Mr Grover writes to the or ess. let him sit down and meditate on the fourth chapter of the First Enistle General of St. John, beginning at the seventh verso, paving particular attention to verse 20.—Yours SACERBOS. Queen street, Levin, Feh. 13.

To tie Editor. Sir, —As your readers are so interested in the instruments of the defunct and deceased brass band, perhaps the Salvation Army could throw some light on the whoreabouts of the trombone: A few years ago one of the members of the late hand whose condition would not commend itself either to Mr Tommy Taylor or tho late Sir Wilfred T ,-nwson. drooped his instrument in the street, and though he grmed about in the unccMin arid?" of the moon, h" was urible to find it and loft if in fl»> read. A passer-bv s'-ibseouentlv fo-'r 1 tbe precious insfri"n"nt and sold i+ in a prominent resident, who has sbice, unfortunatelv. nassed in the Great Bevond. The whereabouts ftf that instrument- now cannot he determined. CVn anv of vom readers tVow anv liirht on the subject? So far as mv «ihs«»rJnt?iw <s concernod T coi'tn'nlv did frl--n ivhen ask-pcl. and on tb>s T hone te write out a hi« .Vmnrs DTCjFNTS OTTEST.

SUGGESTIONS '<'D CrtT>PICS-

PONT) i; VTS

The follow*iig are snggest»d to readers o! The Chronicle n.< matters upon which letters to tlm iditor would bo opportune: — Progress and Settlement in tl>' district. ■"Educational Topic®. Progress of Public Works. Netr Build in crs. etc. ' , . ■. Agricultural Operations. - ■- Horticultural and Fl«ri-"ts]f!iral. " Suggestions as to wh." + . Industrie rniirlit profitably be under- ' faken in district. . Accident"! and Offences. Statp of Ronrls. Orifices-, etc. Public "Wants and Grievances