KAIHERE POST OFFICE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4926, 15 January 1926, Page 3

KAIHERE POST OFFICE.

(To the Editor.!

gir,—with reference to some remarks recently inserted in your paper about a meeting held in Kaihere with regard to post office affairs, of which I have only just received some cuttings, besides other information. I particularly refer to one remark made in your paper, and that is the statement that one of the men on Ngarua Road, Kaihere (the other information 1 have specifies, that man as one who lives opposite the Government Postal Reserve), said that it would be worth £5 an acre to him to have: someone put a match to the did post office building, as the department would then have a new building erected bn the reserve near his farm. Now, in so far as this post; office was, burned down/ and, as your paper alleges, under mysterious circumstances, it seems to imply a serious allegation against the man who lives, opposite. Asi I happen to- live opposite, and have, I admit, repeatedly remarked that the erection of a permanent post office on the reserve site directly opposite my front gate would probably enhance the selling value) of my property by £5 an acre, seeing that I hold a 43-chain frontage to that and other sites and reserves, I must be the man referred to. ‘There is only one other man who lives, opposite, if eight chains down the road can be called opposite. < It is evident that my Remarks about £5 an acre ,ha,ve been twisted as a miserable underhand vote-gaining stunt, and the man who loudmouthed it at a public meeting had not, in the excitement that seemed to prevail at that meeting, stopped to think of the more serious side of his. statement. However, I cannot let this matter pass quietly, as the statement is practically a'n accusation against the man referred to of having made an open offer or bribe of £5 an acre -to anyone who would burn the old post office down. So I presume) providing I am the one referred to, and as I have 101- acres’, the,- big smoke or rather the big joke on April Fool’s morning cost me £505 to square my offer. It has. come .to my knowledge .that Mr Reidy, of Kaihere, is the gentleman who cast these aspersions broadcast,- and I may say he would be well advised to cut out his noted] favourite hobby of stabbing all and sundry in the dark, especially when he hais' to sort Hut a patient who is down and out in hospital and cannot protect himself excepting at considerable detrimental strain to his health. However, I am well enough to challenge Mr Reidy to come out into the~open and makje a direct accusation against the person he refers to and give the law a chance to operate, or publish a statement in this paper that I am npt the person 'referred to.

W. Jl- SENIOR. Kaihere.