THE DOMAIN BOARD.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 2

THE DOMAIN BOARD.

(TO THE EDITOR.) Sir. — I read with much interest the report of the last meeting of the Domain Board. The manner in which the applications of Professor Cadman and Mr Brennan were dealt with, and when one reads of a member of the Board, speaking of L 2 per year as " a big thing," leads one to doubt the capability of the Board, to administer the very valuable charge committed to them. Another member I observed expressed great consideration j for the man who evolved the idea of utilising the baths for adveitising purposes ; and would not on any account see his brains taken advantage of. We i would ask that gentleman how much consideration was shown Mr Peel (who erected the mineral- water factory this very member of the Board now occupies) when he applied to the Board for the right to bottle and dispose of the oveiflow from the springs, after ho (Peel) had not only evolved the idea, but gone to considerable expense in experimenting and sending cases to Auckland, Wellington, etc ? How was it that Peel's application was practically ignored, and that very soon after he had to leave Te Aroha, the bottling of the overflow was started at the factory referred to, and has since been there carried on ? Did this all come about by chance or by evolution? I fancy Mr Brennan is not the only one 'interested in obtaining the sole right to use the baths for advertising purposes. If the Board persist in carrying out the proposed arrangement I consider it will be a digruce to them. — I am, etc., Katepayer. Te Aroha, Sept. 17th, 1886.