Tangitu-Waimiha.
To the Editor. Sir, I was somewhat interested upon receipt of your issue of the 16th when I noticed therein, further news of the country I traversed recently, but laid it down with disgust when I read the latter portion of your correspondent's notes. I had given it no further thought until meeting some of the residents there, who had complimented me upon what I had formerly written, and have since requested me to reply to him. The indigantion, it appears, has not been caused by me, but by himself, and the honours conferred upon him by some of his neighbours I dare not venture to repeat here. It is really needless for mo to mention here that what was said previously, been amply verified and substantiated, and the cases of distress through shortage of food supplies, are only too well known. Strange to say, asserts one of his neighbours, he is about eleven miles from the YVaimiha station himself, has to plough his way through a sea of mud, and is paying 17s 6d per 100 for packing, and could not get that, only for the help of his neighbours. Since my visit, I have met others who have had sections allotted to them in the same block, but have relinquished their rights to same, and turned away in disgust, after seeing the present bad state of the roads. lam very sorry, if by accident, I encroached upon his territory while in his district, but I can assure him, my writing was for no other object than any good it would do, and not to cause indignation. If this able scribe has sufficient, and is perfectly comfortable with all he is monarch of, there is abiolutely no reason why he should want others around him to remain on an equal with himself. His writing of me as he did, will not cause me any fear of going through the district again, even if he should be waiting for me with a tremendous big ball of Waimiha mud, and certainly will not be until the quantities are reduced. —I am, etc., SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 282, 3 August 1910, Page 3
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354Tangitu-Waimiha. King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 282, 3 August 1910, Page 3
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