CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 201, 21 October 1909, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor. Sir, Can you mfarm me what steps have been taken to carry out the resolutions passed at the indignation meeting held in Te Kuiti dome time ago as a protP9t opa mat the restrictions imposed on King Coon try residents as regards the liquor question. I understand a monster retitkm was to be circulated and presented to Parliament, ft appears to me that if something is not. done immediately we will soon be in a worse position than ever. It is a remarkable thing that outsiders who have no stake or interest financially otherwise take upon themselves to interfere with matters that do not in any way affect them personally, and apparently are trying to inuflence Parliftrrif* nft to add to our already unfair conditions. First we have a number of members of the Alliance, who, without any knowledge of the local conditions, pa'-is resolutions, and make absolutely unfoundei statement* with a view to stain their object. Then I notice the Synod also pass r«9otutiori which, well, to put it mildly, I thought they were men of common sense, and would not commit themselves without some inquiries, and this without protest from our own representative from Te Kuiti. Now Mr Laurenson who, by the way has never been to the King Country a id hails from the South Island, is introducing a bill into Parliament to prohibit us altogether. Now leaving the question of wholesale licenses and in fact the Liquor question altogether, does it strike these people, and in fact the residents of the King Country as well, that we are being quietly overlooked and disfranchised, and are not being given a voice or vote in the matter as every other electorate in the Dominion i 9 given. We are not advocating Licenses or No-licenses, but r the electors as a body »hould at once assert their rights and demand the irght to vote, and what is more see that their votes should be given effect to; not an empty farce as at present. This is a big question: a question of rights of citizenship, and the sooner we demand and see we get equal privilege* with other parts of the Dominion the better.—l am, etc., ELECTOR.

To the Editor. Sir,—As is welt known by moat people in Te Haiti, the offices of the District Road Engineers in Te Kuiti have this week become tenantless, the staffs having been scattered to the four winds. It was evidently deemed necessary or advisable to not only remove the staffs from the Te Koiti office, hot also the office fittings, and these have been taken down to erect elsewhere. The ways of the Government are we know, at times very strange, bat does it not seem extraordinary that the retrenchment scheme should be carried mo t'ar as to deem it advisabte to transfer office shelves and furniture to another place. When the expense of taking, down carting, freight and reerecting is considered, not forgetting the damage done in taking down, in transit etc., the ordinary man would imagine that it would have been more cheaper and better policy to obtain new fittings for the new offices. Another thing that strikes one is: are these offices to be left vacant for alt time? one would imagine so by the depletion of all office fittings, as surely this would not have taken place had the intention been to occupy these rooms, in the which case new fittings would have at once to be erected. If yoc, Mr. Editor, or any of your readers could supply me with an answer to this joggle you would relieve the somewhat fogged mind of A RATEPAYER.