The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1916. OTAKI IS STIRRED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 December 1916, Page 2

The Chronicle LEVIN: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1916. OTAKI IS STIRRED.

In another column we reprint an editorial from the Otaki Mail in reference to the Coiiii r ..yi -Fund. The Mail heads its article "<Steady Levin!" and calls upon this town to "apply <lie iirakes ;md go slowly!" The Mall is concerned because Levin Borough Council lias given leave of absence to its Town Clerk covering the middle of January to make a special effort to raise moneys for the County Fund for relief of soldiers and their dependents. "The first meeting of delegates," writes our contemporary, "will be held on the 13tli instant. That being so, the public will want to know who d-ecided that a

special effort would be made next January." The obvious answer to

the Otaki Mail is that it is within the province of, every centre of population in tlie county to make a special effort on behalf of the fund, but the characteristic of Otaki always "was" to be laggard, for which reason she is backward i-i this matter, just as she is behind Levin in population, enterprise fa-lid pnblifc convenience, although .0' aki is over 50 years old and Levin only 25 years. The squabbles between a few citizens of Otaki and other towns arc amusing to those folk who can view them dispassionately, but when the old and narrow parochial spirit if; evinced over so unparochiiil a matter as the 'raising of a County Fund for relief of necessitous soldiers who have been broken in -furhting the countr-v's battles wo cannot but feel regretful that so narrow and so deplorable a spirit of captious-ne-ss has been allowed to become manifest to-day. *