CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 983, 25 April 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(TO Till? KDITOK.)

Sir, —The duty of courtesy makes it incumbent on me to acknowledge your invitation to state my policy in connection with the Harbour Board; otherwise it seems to me quite unnecessary to repeat what has now been so familiar to the public for some years, that I might reasonably expect them to be tired of bearing about it, and I can only surmise what motive prompts you to ask me to do so. There would be more genuine reason for asking the new aspiiants for seats on the Board, whose policy is not yet known, to state their views, and it would be interesting to know what motive has induced you to withhold your kind invitation from them. [Their policy is published elsewhere in this issue. —Ed. H.] The whole aim and object of the Board can be concisely stated in three words ; “Get the Wharf.” That, accordingly, is ray policy. Until this is accomplished there is no hope whatever of any further progress. And the only way to achieve this object is to return a Board which can work harmoniously together. I am perfectly satisfied that if the members of the Board will pull together with me and assist me, this essential requirement will be attained and Foxton will possess an .asset such as no other town between Wellington and Wanganui can ever hope to have either in value of kind. On the other hand, if the Board see fit, after I have with years of strenuous exertion brought the local control of the river and harbour to its present position, to oppose and thwart me at every turn, unmindful of the fact that he who has with years of thought, evolved a scheme, best understands how to carry it out to full and complete success, and the natural result must follow, and Foxton will loose what it has gained with so much struggling and will sink back into the decadence from which it might have risen. With a united Board difficulties which seem insuperable now may be overcome. With a divided Board the agony will soon be at an end and all that has been gained will be lost forever.—l am, etc., P. Hen N ESS v.

[to the editor.] Sir,— Why don’t those wouldbe Councillors get on the stump and tell us what works they will be in favour of doing if elected. Most of them are evidently afraid of the by-laws being carried into effect. In fact they don’t know what they will do till they find out who are the influential citizens that they must not interfere with regarding the bylaws. They gammon they want water and drainage, yet they play into the hands of those who arc opposed to water and drainage, as they have their own stink-pits.—l am, etc., Drainage.