CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 733, 30 December 1914, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

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The Editor. Sir, —I notice a leading article in the Kawhia Settler aner.t the desirability of being liberal to the Kawhia nursing home. It states that no ratepayer worthy of the name will object. "Well, I object Living on the Marokopa I know how in<"-onve r ient and custly it is to travel through or handle sijk people through Kawhia, and as the main thoroughfares run to th«. linp, and givpn a good read, you can be in Hamilton Hospital the same time as they can be in Kawhia, ard with up-to-date appliances in Hamilton the chancss Of being pulled through are a thousand to one on Hamilton. I do not object to a nursing home in Kawhia, if the Kawhia fulks are prepared to pay for it, but when the nap?r correspondents state they do noi want the biggest portion of Kawhia South, as it is not in touch or any benefit io them, why contribute or be called names. The following method is strictly followed in all seriou3 cases in Kawhia and always will be owing to want of up-to date appliances: If a person takes ill- at Te Anga a journey of ten miles must be negotiated by vehicle; the patient transferred to a special launch costing 15s; taken to Kawhia: spend a night in Kawhia: transferred to launch for Oparau next day, another 15s; a special conveyance must be waiting at Oparau costing up to £5 to take patients to Te Awamutu; transferred to train, thence to Hamilton. On the South with decent roads one just drives to the line, thence to Hamilton. They won't even make decent streets, or go in for an up-to-date water supply, or drainage scheme —as anyone knows who has a rose on a warm day. So, if thsy will not rats themselves for these very urgent matters, how will they provide an up-to-date hospital—except by the paople's generosity—or rates. I would advise the the. Kawhia South and Awakino to combine if th?y want a hospital, and place it in the centre of their own districts, or, fierhap?, better still, on the railway at the most accessible spot.—l am, et.,

A SETTLER.