CAPTAIN RUSSELL ON SEPARATION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 406, 2 September 1876, Page 3

CAPTAIN RUSSELL ON SEPARATION.

The following is an extractfrom Captain for Napier) speech on the Separation question :—I will refer to. aflUtriet-Which I am more or lesis familiar" with-, and ask you to takeitaSatypeqf waat may arise under these exaggerated provfetoes. I suppose there is no district ip Nw Zealand/certainly none in any part' of Auckland, which is more fertile or richer naturally than Poverty Bay. I would- say, go and ask the inhabitants of that district if they wish to be attached to-th&Wings qi Auckland City ; and ;go to'the Bay of Islands and 'ask them that. The honorable l member for Waikato has advocated separation ; but I doubt whether he really represents" the feelings of Waikato upon that point.' Mr Whitaker. ■ I do. I received a telegram from Waikato'to-day ■supporting me. Captain Russell.—There is another honorable gejitlemam who lives at Waikato and represents Waipa, who is a far better interpreter of the feelings of the people there than the honorable-member for Waikato, and he is of a different opinion. To refer again to Poverty Bay --if yon go there now, what nil!you see ? You will seethe country rich and fertile, a people really industrious, apd you will see no roads, no bridge^no public buildings'; and if you ask tnem where, 'id the ! diiys of trouble, they got assistance from, they will tell ybu Hawke’s Bay, for tile people of Auckland never sent succour in any way whatever. You will hear more than that. You will hear that although the education rates are not levied near the city of Auckland, the education rates are levied in Poverty Bay, and that those rates are used to pay salaries in the city of Auckland. And more than that, you will hear this: that in default' of payment a, summons is issued to attend at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, 200 miles away ; and this is done, I suppose, to secure the liberty of the subject.