THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 235, 17 November 1905, Page 2

THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION

(ro THE EDITOB.)

Sir, —A letter appears ih your last issue giving an account of the money i voted for local public works, also tbe I money spent. Whose fault is it that 1 tbe money has been voted and not spent ? I caiculate that Mr Lang, M.H.R ,is to blame. Why does he not see that all moneys placed on the Estimates are spent for the purposes they were voted for? What we want is a good solid battler—an independent careful pushing man, capable of doing our work and doing it well. Lang is almost a stranger to me and so is Greenslade. We have had a sample of Lang’s work, now let us try another and see if we can get more money spent in the country and less iu the towns. We want roads, bridges, tele-phones-and a short line of railway, and under existing circumstances Lang either has no weight in the House or he neglects our work. It is all rot to say thai; he has done our work and has influence, for the proof is in the work done. Where is our Okupata bridge ? Where are our roads ? our telephones? (not to go as far as a railway). We < want proof. Mr Lang no doubt ba- j many friends and as far as i know hi | is a very nice gentlemanly old fellow ; : but we want mo e than this, wo want our wants better attended to and we intend to have them satisfied.— Yours, etc., ,G. H. MACKENZIE. Oparau, ;