By Water to Te Kuiti.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 299, 1 October 1910, Page 2

By Water to Te Kuiti.

To the Edtior. Sir, —May I beg space to correct one or two verbal inaccuracies in your report of the meeting held at your office on Monday, 19th inst. Mr Adams' estimate was £420 for the work required, Pirongia to Te Kopua. He did not survey the river below Pirongia. My figures, Is 4£d per bag of sugar covered delivery to Pirongia. The cost so far as Te Awamutu would be Is—difference being carting. While gratified at the sympathetic attitude taken by the chairman of the Waitomo County Council and by Major Lusk, it is, of course, a great disappointment to my committee that, at the moment, the council is unable to find any way by which it could assist the scheme. Although disappointed, however, we are not dismayed, The advantages of water transit are too obvious, its value in opening up and sustaining this large area too patent, to avoid the Conclusion that, sooner or later, these highways will be carrying the necessary craft. If circumstances prevent the carrying out of the project as at present conceived, we must attack it piece-meal. My committee desires to express its gratitude to Mr Scholes for his undertaking to consult the council's solicitor as to the legal aspects of the question, and awaits the result with keen intersef. May I add a word of appreciation of the "King Country Chronicle" in its enlarged form. Anyone who has been in touch with newspaper enterprise from the inside will understand the difficulties confronting any but the great metropolitan papers in a young country such as the Dominion. To make the paper "newsy," to provide literary and scientific interest, in short to escape the merely "parochial" aspect is a well nigh impossible task under colonial limitations. That you have achieved it should be matter for conrgatulation and gratitude with your subscribers and throughout your territory. I seem to see—not afar off—a daily issue, and then New Zealand will have its "Leeds Mercury" or its "Liverpool Daily Post," which have long since ceased to be "local" in any real sense. I remember you forgot the editorial traditions a week ago in referring to your "blushes" at the eulogies pouring in upon you. Tut! Tut! An editor and blushing are mutually exclusive terms. And I will go bail that everyone of your subscribers will read an appreciation with appreciation.—l am, etc., JNO. E. SKUSE. September 24th, 1910.