TO THE EDITOR

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 124, 19 December 1938, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR

TANEATUA-OPOTIKI RAILWAY \Y 11A KATAN 10 v. ()J»OTJK.I Sir, In a recent issue ol the Hay ol Plenty Press- a paper published at W hakala tie— t here. appears over a column giving an interview with a man Siiid to live in Auckland, who advocates the diversion ol the money lor the Opotiki-Tsiient.ua railway for the purpose of building a tunnel to, Oliojit- Ik noli, etc. \\ ha kill line has been largely built 11 11 by the expenditure of money provided by Opo-liki and oklier places as is shown by the hundreds of thousands spent in drainage of Kaugitaiki swamp and the hundreds of thousands spent in building a railway I nun Ta-uranga to- Wlmkatane. Now tlie aliove newspaper Ims lon nd a man in Aiiekland, and supports him in a lending article, who says I hat Opotiki should eontii to piny ler facilities at Whakat.aiie and he deprived o'f the grind- for closing the gap in the- .Mist Coast Main Trunk Railway, which is so necessary lor Ihe well a re- o! the Hay ol I lenl.y, Gisborne and Hawke’s Hay. A man —not from Auckland this time has said that the small minority at Wlm-kiifam-i are “loud speakers "hen if mines fin asking, for Opofiki’s share of Government grants, while at Opart ki there are too many “dumb dog;*” wile, sit hack, and allow their right? to he diverted. AI the recent elections it was shown that only 7!)2 electors voled at the two booths in Wbakatnne Horough. while 12(52 ve-ted al the two booths in Opotiki Horough. Will Ibis great majority sit hack and' ii I low their rights to he stolen irom theui Y We will watch with interest the columns, of Jbo Opotiki News I< |! an account, ol their delcnce ol flieii town and county. P lON KICK.