THOSE KIRITEHERE ROADS

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 356, 3 April 1908, Page 2

THOSE KIRITEHERE ROADS

(TO THE EDITOR.) Slß,—Mr A. E. L. seems to have generously attributed to hurting the settlers, his reticence upon exploitation, the charge be made so glibly to Mr R ibinson. It is with disgust one reads of hie qualms of conscience striking him after he has blabbed and got a turn of the stone for his own axe—a little theory seeing he knows nothing of facts would have been better. A-E.L* seems to think it necessary for him to lift the cudgels on behalf of the Public Works officers. After reading his defence they must feel towards him, like the owner of a plate glass window woo d feel toadying brick—tbe higher he lifts those cudgels the more humiliating becomes the officers’ position. He commenced ostensibly with the commendable intention of defending those helpless officers. I never dedenied the helplessness and why should A.E.L. advertise it. All his concentrated effort has managed to do is give the public a pyrotechnic display of A.E.L.’s abilities by A. E. Langley, and proves to bis own satisfaction he ia a veritable solou in disguise and a complete adyisory Board to the P.W. Department. He admits be was once au honoured officer of that Department, consequently it is only fair to those gentleman to admit that the Department has performed something iu evolution since his time. He may have surveyed N irmanby and assessed the value of tbe Auckland Province, but noting that position and his obscurity it is self-evident tbe State committed no second error in giving a disciple of Artemus Ward’s a second job of that importance We wonder at A.E.L.’s audacity in making state meats unfounded in fact that are 1 k dy to heap trouble upon a commun* i y whom by force of circumstances b ive to keep the drones in the human hive, and primarily through the want of roads already have an abundance of thd commodity. I deplore ibe fact any person within axe to grind; aud by bis own showing is not an authority, neither is he a sufferer but n “gainer” by the settlers’ toil, should have entered this controvorf-ay at all, but it is axiomatic, that if the capables will not speak the incapibks must, and for the Department it is a pity that those who have spoken should have sp ken at all ; although through A.E.L.’s letters there seem? to be a small voice saying “Before I dance Mr R.’s piping again I shall bee >m» batter acquainted with tbe times..”—Yours, etc., PETER ROSS.

P.S.—With your permission, Mr Editor, I will at some future date have a word from the sutlers' side ra Mr Langley’s statement that the ce.tle s exploit the GoverumenU—F.B,