The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, February 18, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 956, 18 February 1911, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, February 18, 1911. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Elsewhere in this issue we publish the Feilding Star’s opinion of a suggested rating area to provide security for a loan to enable the Harbour Board to purchase the local wharf from the Railway Department, so far as our contemporary considers it will effect Feilding. Our contemporary starts out by saying that the “benefits which the community in general reaps from harbour facilities at Foxton is so small as to be a negligible quantity,” and then it concedes that the port “may be used to advantage by one or two business people.” It then breaks out with the statement that ” Feilding will only be defending its just rights by entering its vigorous protest against inclusion in any rating area,” and winds up by knocking down its man of straw in declaring that it has always urged ‘‘closer connection between Feilding and Foxton because the sea board is a cheaper facility for carrying goods than the railways from Wellington.” Now, what are the Star’s readers expected to gather from our esteemed contemporary "mixed medley ?” Boiled down'its attitude is equivalent to the selfish ratepayer who would greedily participate in the good things to be obtained at the other fellow’s expense, but would not pledge himself for a copper in order to assist to that end.