THE GORE TOWN BELT AND GARDENS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 336, 4 March 1884, Page 2

THE GORE TOWN BELT AND GARDENS.

-- »*- fO ffICE SJ?ITO2S.. Sir, — Your sub-leader under the ab^ve heading in last issue is very misleading, con? sidering you admit you know nothing of the circumstances under which the Domain B.o#rd w »s created. In the first place, the reason /of the L er deferring action on the application of the 'jFo.wu. Bp^pd -was not .caused by gonie persons -in £he township who ha 4 m§t> 'in gecreit conclave. "Th*? 'appLjca#on of the Board was Rjade y,ou say in •' it was not for two months "atterwardsj j?/nd tfye'n only after it was known that the l s owa Board' application was refused, that applicatioStwas made for a Domain Board. Had thiTiiot been done, it is probable the reserves wou v ld have b^een Iqst to the Town Board, i feeing how amply thajb Board is ajlre^dy en&,9\yecl. Tjhere ' was notning secret in the j matter; a$ i£ was known to many that' applil cation was being ma4.o for a Domain Board. Your article is full oi n&jafceg either ipil : \ fully or ignorantly made. In bitmv P^ff you would have donj much better in mak> ijig enauiries before writing in the way you have done, You seem to imply that the five gentlemen "nominate *? tne Domain Board were alone instrumental' in having $}9 reserves vested in a Domain Board. This is v&'f §o : some of the five knew nothing of it until' after £he application was sent away, and as 1 have already ' ftated other people were aware of it The five' will, % I thjnk. do much better by retaining office and hot resigning at their first meeting, and 1 d'oujpt if .the tfrres members who are not on the Town Board will be so happy as you uiin'k tp be reHeyed of an office w^ich wgs not isuxepbit\o,^|jy objtained'." pne'of tjhefis three is a practical gardener, and will be or a great deal more benefit on the Domain ' Board than any member of the Town Board

ooul 1 be, and another has perhaps rw ranch ' knowledge o£ gardening aa the gardener referred to. But independently altogether of your strictures on the surreptitious appoint- < ment, you overlook the fact that in other places Dbmnin Boards exist independently of the Town Hoards or City Councils. Close at our door, in Gordon (and I wonder why in this caso you did not earlier advocate the transference of the Domain Kcscrvo thero to the Town "Board), thero exists a Domain Board, and* in Dunedin existH a Domain Board and a reserve over which the Oity Council exercises no control. — -I am, etc., Okie or the Domain Boabd, Gore, 3rd March, 1884. j — — — \ [Our correspondent, while ho n<r- usos us of ignorance and attempts a seeming {denial, virtually confirms all we asserted. Where he got his information that the Town Board's application was refused he maf be able to explain ; it is news to all besides. That it was delayed we all knew. We did not credit the five for having the town belt and the garden vested in a Domain Boarl, for it is not so vested, but in the Governor, who ha^ delegated the management. What we did was to charge them with diverting it from the Town Board. When and where the patriotic action wa^ taken on behalf of the sleeping inhabitants of sending away the applioa'ion (which is confessed to) we shall look to hear at the first meeting. We say such divided action might have cost us the reserves. We are compared to Dunedin with its abundant resources. We shall only bo too glad if the Council of Five can make the wilderness a rose so readily — and then i^. will be Urn", enough to throw stones at the poverty of tin; Gordon delegates. The colony all over is orying against these Domain Boards, who havo neither funds nor the means of raising a \y.~ Ed. ENSIQN.]