CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

THAT HOAD Y\ OKK

(To the Editor.)

Sir-—Do patient with me a little longer. Your informant evidently believes in the Biblical injunction that “The gentle answer iurnoth away wraili.” Dm I notice lie failed to .state who done the actual reporting, and when the instructions referred to were issued to the Overseer. It is perfectly i rue that my worthy neigh'our made a request in ti'.e County Chairman in Ll l is connection at the time of the hitler’s visit. It is also perfectly true, that at that time, or a little previous, Lite staff and lorry, were in this locality and my neighbour then also made his request, which was nevertheless heard without response, notwithstanding the fact that the staff was available and actually on the spot. As a matter of fact llii' lorry did actually dump a load or two in front of Mr M ulhalhiml’s residence as it. did in front of all the other residences in mv immediate vicinity

with the exception of my own, which is admittedly the lowest and wettest portion of the rpper Kokatalii Road, or was so until 1 had constructed at my own expense some twelve chains of drain along either side of the reserve. In approaching a certain Councillor as to the ’prospects of getting assistance for the jol>, I received such a discouraging reply that 1 did not press the matter further. No doubt I will be told in reply that my partisanship leads me to place a political] significance on the foregoing, and incidentally into another pitfall. It is superfluous on my part Sir, to remind my fellow ratepayers or at least that portion of them engaged in the dairying industry, that partisanship on the part of a certain Vest Coast paper, lias in some measure been responsible for leading the co-operative dairying industry into the pitfall and almost hopeless position it finds itself in to-dav. But that, Sir, is another story.

I am etc.. .MARK WALLACE Kokatalii. Nov. 9th.