The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, June 26th., 1913. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1114, 26 June 1913, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, June 26th., 1913. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Wh published some time ago, a warning to the sneak thief and magazine mutilator who was in the habit of indulging his criminal instinct at the public reading room, and we are pleased to report that for a time the contemptible practice of stealing and mutilating papers ceased. The Town Clerk reports, however, that during this week certain papers have been mutilated. A paragraph having a local reference was torn out of a Taranaki paper and a copy of the Illustrated London News, and also a copy of a district paper, stolen. To steal from a public institution, where papers and magazines are filed in a comfortable and - well-lighted room without cost to the habitues, is not only an act of base ingratitude, but is contemptible in the extreme, and we regret that Foxcou is compelled to harbour such moral perverts. The . matter is now being investigated by the police.

Members of the local Harbour Board cannot understand Feilding Borough Council’s objection to be included in the Foxton Harbour Board’s proposed rating area. Feilding’s main objection consists of a vague fear that if included it may be called upon to bear its share in some colossal wild-cat scheme to make the port a deep sea entrance or other equally visionary squandering, based on total ignorance of the facts. Feilding is asked to pledge its share of security for a loan for the purpose of either purchasing the wharf from the Railway Department at a fair and equitable price, or to build up a new wharf. It is questionable whether any rate would be called up, and even if it were, Feilding’s benefit would far outweigh its trifling commital. B'eilding’s opposition points to the fact that its public men have never given the subject serious con-

sideration, otherwise they would not act in such a ridiculous and short-sighted manner. Feilding's future in large measure is bound up in the Foxton port and by opposing the present movement they are assisting to dwarf their commercial prosperity.