PUBLIC OPINION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 1, Issue 80, 1 April 1913, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

A COLUMN FOR THE PEOPLE This column is " The People's Column." We invite them to express their views on all public questions and matters affecting the district. We do not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed bv our correspondents The Waiuku Railway- | TO THE EDITOR.] Sir, I have nniiced some strange letters in the "limes" on the above su'jert, notably ones by "Nil Drsperamlum" and "Go-ahead. " In "Nil 1 sarched in v in for matter of interest or instru:tio n , and came to the conclusion he was trying tj lie iU. ny. It was a fool of a letter altoiMtber, ard his hints an I innuendoes *ere eimply the reflex of an evil mind. "Goat ead" writes ir more sincerity, although he shows a lamenable lack of knowledge concerning the co miry to be served by the pioposed railway. He is doubtless rj«ht in assuming that Waiuku by itself would supnort the maintenance of a railway but overlooks th fact that a little rao'e is needed to make up for non-pavmg 1 nes elsewhere. He is als i probably light <n asserting that there is no bett r land in the Domini n the Aka Aka plains, but iverlooks the faci that the Aka Aka people have a level road right into Wai uku, so that they wiuld he Well strved with a station tnere. "Go-ahead" ia over thirty years behind the times with his committeis to furthrr his echeme, and >vhen eigm g his letter surely forgot to ad th j word "shwh." —I am, etc., ONE OF I HE LEAGUE.