CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2875, 24 April 1925, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The “Royal” is at the disposal of “Progress,” “Introspect,” or any aspirant for civic honours on Tuesday next, or to anv other person who has to say on the subject of municipal affairs. — Yours faithfully. W. HAMER. A CONTRADICTION. Sir, —With your kind permission I wish to contradict and correct Mayor Chrystall’s remark as published in Thursday’s issue, viz., that “pieat credit is due to Mayor Fraser Councillors Coley, Bryant and Thompson for commencing the good work of tar-sealing, and to-day we have an up-to-date surface throughout the entire length of Main Sired." I contradict this, and state that it was on my proposal, seconded bv Mayor Fraser, that the tar-sealing of the Main Street was commenced, and that was before Mr Thompson was ever elected to the Foxton Council. I am. a candidate at the forthcoming election, and whilst not looping, for glorification, consider that one shoifld be accurate about, such statements, and at least give the devil his due. —Yours, etc., CHARLES SIMMONS. (To the Editor.) Sir. —The final act of the comic opera entitled “Progress in Exeelsis” was staged in your issue of yesterday, when the “Self Appointed Critic” found that, in rushing onto the stage, he had stubbed his locs badly on a knotty question known as Municipal Progress, and in his agony and mental perturbation ghu’es fiercely around to catch a glimpse of his rival “Introspect.” Not being able to discern his whereabouts, the “Self Appointed Critic” cries aloud, “Bring forth this man, that I may slay him with my tongue. It is not enough that I should take my beatiim from his pen! I must have the limelight! Give me the limelight! To me the deeper questions of the municipality are as naught compared with the glory of the limelight,!” The audience, surfeited with the rush of hot air, call “Good Night, Nurse!” and the curtain falls as the orchestra strikes up “Until We Meet Again.” I thank you, All- Editor, for your patience over this debate, and hope you will condole with “Progress” over his misdirected energies.—Yours, etc., INTROSPECT.