CORRESPONDENCE.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 18, 11 October 1901, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To The Editor.

Sir : Your newspaper has been ushhered into the journalistic* world since my last visit to the district. Allow me to wish you abundant prosperity, and to congratulate you 'on producing such an excellent paper, which is a credit to the district. Will you give me a short space to suggest to your Council the advisabdity of passing a bye-law prohibiting the erection in the main street of such trumpery buildings as those opposite Mr Manoy's store. If such a condition of affairs is allowed to be continued it will not redound to theiras representatives of the inhabitants. I am, etc., "Viator..

To The Editor.

Sir : As the Mctueka .Harborquestion is before the powers that be with every probability of an early settlement I do net intend to make any remarks, other than on the concluding paragraph cf "Borough Councillor's" letter, which appeared in vguiissue of the first instant. He states that "the writer, of whose identity I am apparently satisfied, assures me there is no personal feeling in the matter, and that the criticism I have been subjected to , has been done on the principle, that the public actions of the pbulic men are public property.." "Very good. I quite agree with him, and I have no objection to my public actions being criticised if done in a fair and proper spirit, but I certainly think that when one public man criticises the actions of another as ".Borough. Councillor" has done and to shelter his identity under a pseudonym is (to say the least of it) mean and contemptible. I am, etc., Daniel Bate. Biwaka Oct Bth 1901.