CORRESPONDENCE

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 59, 19 July 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

Under no circumstances is the Editor res^ ponsible for the matter contained in correspondence.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — While the richness of our reefs and the permanency of this field as a gold producing district are being every month more fully established, it would ill become us who are reaping the benefits, to forget him who though while living was an aboriginal native and is now passed away from amongst us, by his steady and indomitable energy and perseverance, was the means of leading us to where is now being found in such abundance that which will, in all probability, enrich us and future generations to all time. If there be one name more than another which ought to be had in grateful remembrance by every one who is now earning an honest living on tin's Held, it is that of " Hone Werahiko." Perhaps this may not be the exact time to do it in, that I leave for others to determine and still when so fitting a time as the present, but. let us not forget an obligation which we must all of us feel ourselves placed Under, to raise some lifting memorial of him who, though a native, was without doubt the means of opening up tin's field to European enterprise. Li-t i.he time, however, be when it may I feel sure there is not a man amongst us but what would be ready to his mite towards such an object. — • I am, &c, Henry Buttle. To Aroha, 11th July, 18S4.