Captain Cook and "W.B."

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 157, 20 May 1909, Page 5

Captain Cook and "W. 8."

Dear "W. 8."—1, at all times, read with great interest any article appearing above your signature. In Monday's issue of the "K.C.C.," however, you write of Captain Cook, and in it you i mention that the Natives of these Islands. and other Islands of the South Seas, used to feed Captain Cook on "fat baked hog." Later on you mention his chieftain friends used to send ! him, with the canoe loads of Island fruits, a fine fat porker. Will you kindly tell me where they obtained the pigs. - Yours Inquiringly, KAHIKATEA. ! May 18th. : TO THE EDITOR. | Sir, —In your issue of the 6tb inst., I have read F. Elwood's letter saying that the statement made by your correspondent of April 29th, regarding the closing of the Post Office at Kaeaea was absolutely false. Now, sir, I don't know who that correspondent was, nor am I writing this letter in defence of him, but what I want the public to know ic ihat he was not making any faise statements. The tone of his tetter may not please MrEJwood,nevertheless it was the truth. I happened to have attended that meeting at Kaeaea, and there was nobody present that knew anything about th«? closing of the Po3t Office until after it had been close,l. In fact, there were three men at that meeting who had come with or sent their letters to catch the outgoing mail, a distance of more than two miles in one case, just in time to find out that we had lost our mail service, through the Post Office being closed. Now, sir, is it likely that those men j would do such a thing if they had been i told that the office would be closed af- j tcr a certain date as Mr Elwood would j lead the public to believe that they had i

been. I won't say that Mr Elwood is i making any falsi* statement?, but at the same time he is saying what is not true. am, etc., KAEAEA SETTLER. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, In your issue of May 10th, I notice a letter from Tasman S. Hickman, in which he states that the residents of Kacaea signed a petition to the Postmaster-General in which were Jhe followipp Wvivds: 11 From information received by us we understand that the Postmistress at Kaeaea is resigning her position owing to the Department refusing to grant her a salary " Now, sir, Mr Hickman believes that such a petition was ?ufikieuinoti?c for all the residents of Kaeaea, that they were going tu lose their mail service by the clpsing of the Post Office. Surely Mr Hickman must be joking or he would ncv«f* want the public to think the »fime of he does. But further he says that to his knowledge that word was sent round to settlers each mail day after that, that no mail would be received at the Post Office aft?? & cer- # tain datr. >,*j#,-, j don't live one < •jUo» »er or the distance from the Post I Office that Mr Hickman does, and I never heard anything about the matter ' until it was closed. I also attended c < meeting held at (ty- the pur- j pose c.» buviotf another mail service established. Now, there wer? at least kix persons there tttft did not know anything about our Post Office being closed,until afterwards, to say nothing I of another half dozen at home, that 1 knew less.until they fai-o to face j with ths faj t ui having to go to Aria > for {heiF mail#, a distance of eight to ' ten miles. Now, sir, I think if Mr }li<-kman knew all about this matter as be said he did, he should have in- 1 formed the public and saved them a lot of inconvenience as a good citizen would have done.—l am, etc., SKY HIGH.