ROTORUA COMPLAINT

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1931, Page 4

ROTORUA COMPLAINT

OVER NEW BATES. iSy Telegiapti, ter ITesa Association;. RoTORUA, June 28. ‘ If the Premier will not, or cannot, immediately complete the .blue Rath, m accordance with the whole original plan, an opportunity should be given to the people of liotorua to do so themsAves, provided that the revenues derived therefrom are secured to them/’ said the Mayor, Air Jackson, when interviewed regarding an announcement by Hon. Air de la Perrelle, in a letter to Air Cknkard, AI.P., that only a juvenile hath is to be constucted immediately.”

The Ala.vor continued: “I am utterly disgusted uith the vacillation of those responsible for these decisions. They clcn’t know their own minds for two clays together. I find it difficult to reconcile the statement made to myself by Air Perrelle, that tlie fill tie Paths would be completed in accordance with the original statement, and I can only conclude that either-the Minister was not conversant with tlie decision of Gahfnet, or that lie Made a deliberate misleading statement to the people of Rotorua, In Wellington recently, 1 interviewed the Prime Minister, who informed me it has been decided to proceed with tile baths in a modified form. T assured Air Forbes that it would he futile to proceed in that way,'and that T was convinced that the'people of Rotorua had sufficient faith in the original proposal to enable a private company to raise the money without difficulty and complete th? building in with the orijrnnl scheme provid'd th°t the opportunity were given, in which case the whole of the b'»th revenues should go to the people of Reform.”