CORRESPONDENCE.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 16, 4 October 1901, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

■** Opinions expressed under this heading are those of Correspondents; not ours. Letters relating to public matters, free of personal abuse, will be published with pleasure.

To The Editor.

Sir: Will you kindly 'grant me space in your columns to reply to a few remarks made by Badman in your last issue. In the first place, he says Mr Ryder is a very clean and particularly careful man. Granted, until such times he is found on the contrary; then again, Badman says had I have spoken to Mr Ryder about it (the nuisance) before writing to my employers a little unpieasentness would have been avoided. Now Sir, the nuisance was there, and my duty was to notify Mr Ryder to remove it, which I did. Tarn assure Badman, that he is suffering from a very baci complaint, and I would advise him to try a little piece of Dead Horse; or, if his stomach is too weak, perhaps a little mutton broth prepared from a local slaughtered sheep w-ould help him. If not, if Badman will attend the next Council meeting, I venture' to say he will get permanently cured. I am etc., Edward Goodman. Inspector of Nuisances.

To ThbEdhce.

Sir : Some time ago I started a subscription, limited to one shilling, for the purpose of "ereetiiig a memorial in memory of Trooper Tarrant, who died in Smth. Africa. I asked the Motueka Borough Council to take the matter tip, which they did by passing it along to the Wairuea C unty Council, who shunted it on to the Nelson Harbor Board, who have done nothing. I have £2 14s in hand, and could get a lot more, if the matter could be started. lam not in a position to attend, or call a meeting, as my duties keep me in close attendance at the Wharf, but shall be pleased to assist in any movement for the attainment of the object. If no move is made in the matter during tdis month I purpose returning the subscriptions to the donors, Thanking you for the space afforded in your paper, and wishing you success. I am etc., H. L. Moffatt. Motueka Wharf, Oct. 3. Sir : Having been absent lately, travelling over rocky roads and through almost trackless forests, my reply to " One who Signed" has been delayed till now, but I trust you will place a small space at my disposal. The writer says I have passed the sphere of usefulness. I don't think so. And I question his right to infer that by sending the letter to your paper and pointing out the absurdity of opening an office so near Ngatimoti, I was working against the district. He says some 50 persons signed in favor of it. Well, I don't know how the petition man got so many signatures (unless children in arms were allowed to place a X on the document, and 1 don't think that was permitted), for I can only spot about 16 who live in the locality, and before this last move they seemed to have been satisfied with the postal facilities afforded at Ngatimoti, where they still have to go when in need of a post office order, or wish to send a telephone message to Motueka. If the postal areas are to be altered again, I would suggest a post office for each house in the hamlet. Then our wants would be fully satisfied on this burning question: contentment, would reign supreme, and the ambitions of certain cockatoos realised. At any rate, the new ofiice is opened, and in working order. It only remains for the bridge over the creek, which we have to cross, to be made safe for pedestrians. I do want to slip through some day, and be lost to an intelligent, sympathetic community. I was going to say ' : unanimous" but remembering the hanky panky proceedings in connection with our school, which you are ignorant tf, Mr Editor, 1 thought better of it. I shall have something more to say about the condition cf our roads, bridges, and tl e hopes we have of being able to reach Motueka, per rail, at no very distant date. We a e now making ourselves acquainted with the New Zealand Railway Guide, figureing up the rate of speed we shall travel, and the annihilation of space (1 think that is a scientific phrase, but I can't exactly say because my school teacher has gone to the Better Land and I don't like asking any other body) which we, and our children, grand children, and great grand children, shall have the pleasure of witnessing. I am etc., Old Settler.