HELENSVILLE DOMAIN.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 September 1912, Page 3

HELENSVILLE DOMAIN.

TO THE EDITOR,

Sir. —For a considerable' time ; ;now the Helensville Town Board jahave prided themselves upon the cojratrol and administration of the Helensi ville Hot Springs. le The attached-letters will come; as a shock to most .of the Residents^ of Helensville that an attempt is blesing made to take from the District pj the control of these Springs. ri I am not going into the matter jj bow as to whether it would be for the jfcc ultimate benefit of the District if tithe, change were made. It is quite i_ an open question as to whether it wdhuld be good or not ior control-to be taj ken over by the Tourist Department. } All ! I can say now, is that the majttter should never have been represented to the Minister in charge and reached the present 5 stage before it-had bjeeen discussed by the Helensville Doml-ain Board and referred to the people \D7hO are responsible for.the present de\jhel opment. In the past the Tourist 3> Department have not assisted in jtthe furtherance of' these Springs—w'ihat guarantee have w^e that our intei'r'est will not suffer in the future as in th-he past. r I would mention (as Chairman t' of the. Board) the first intimation I _figot of this matter. \yas by letter received from Mr Coates on Saturday and fche explanation came by notice naijded on my door by Mr McLeod on Siijin* day—both the lettet and notice I gfive here, \ p - I immediately wired to Mr Somdu's, an old Resident of Helensville w Tho bis now Mayor of Te Aroha to which fllie replied, both my wire and his repljc/ I give you here. . .""""""^ I contend now that the present Board in its dying hours have $no right ~to pass any resolution at Its final ineeting two days before t : he election dealing with these Spririjgs and it is for the People of this Tot ;vn to say if they are tired of the possesion of their Domain and are anxious I, to see the control go into other han.ds after so much has been done to briing thera to their present state of perfcpc-* tion. aj I remain jYours faithfully. |- James Steward, Copy. —Received Saturday, 7th 19 '■! 2 j —4th Sept. 1912, — James StewaiH, ! Esq., Helensville. Dear Sir, —Herewith I enclose letter received from tlhe Minister of Tourist and Health Resorts, referring to the Helensyille Hot Springs. This matter was placed bje--1 fore the Minister by Mr McLeod an<d sorao other gentlemen hence the repHy. ', I would ask your Board to consider | this matter at an early date and give ia ; definite reply as to whether it is yol |r !j intention to acquiesce to the Goyerd--1! ment's suggestion. Yours faithfulh^i J (Signed), J' Goßrox Coates.

August. 31st. 1912.— J. G. Coatek Esq., M. P,' House of Representatives!, Wellington. Dear Sir,—ln answer t«p the representations of the 'deputatima consisting of Messrs F. Jones, Jamers McLeod, V, Trounson and F, Brown introduced to me by yourself on tho sth instant, I have to inform you that it is the opinion of the Government that the time has now arrived for thq Helensville Domain to bo brought under the provisions of the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act, 1908, and developed in accordanco with thejtf general policy of the Government-p and administered by the Departmental of Tourist and Health Resorts in an manner similar to that appertaining a to the To Aroha Hot Springs Domain, ig It is thoreforo respectfully suggestedji< that tho Board should tako into conoid sideration the question of adopting* «)•_ resolution consenting to the transpi|N of tho control of the HelensviileVHo^r main from the Board to the D^S'Jt-.kj ment of Tourist and Health Resorts, | as the Government is unable to fav-H ourably entertain any proposal for an {• \ additional grant beyond the £2.000 already granted. Yours faithfully. (Signed), R. Heatox Rhodes. Minister for Tourist, and Health Resorts..

Nailed to my door Sunday Morning-Notice.—ln reply to re-|; presentations made by me while in: Wellington, th^ Government have ft decided to tako over control of the a

HeLnsville Hot Springs Domain, f James McLeod. t.

i Copy. (Telegram.)— Ralph Somers,

tTe Aroha.—ln your opinion would it :, be good Policy for Town Board tot hand over the administrations of Hel* <

ensville Hot Springs to Tourist De-i partment. James Stewakt.—- 8, 9, 12. ■ (Reply)— James Stewart. Helens-' ville.—Think Board would be very \ unwise hand over control now that! springs are doveloped. Someus.— A '991^ '