CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1729, 10 April 1895, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Under no circumstances whatever is the Editor responsible for matter contained in correspondence ]

(to the Editor.)

Sir, —Mr Mills in liis last complains that I_ have not answered a question of his. I think I have fully answered it, and am quite prepared to leave the matter to the judgement of your readers. I am quite sure, however, they will agree with me that Mr Mills has not answered my statements with regard to Thompson’s track. He has however drawn a red herring across the scent by referring to my article with regard to the first formation of the track by the Tauranga County Council. Now lam quite aware that one of the principal articles of the creed of the great Liberal Party is to bo liberal, not with your own money but with some one else’s, and well has this Ministry earned out this principle. I am also aware that land-owners are held to be socialj pests, and liable to be robbed by any Liberal Government. Mr Mills, however, is the first, and I hope the Jasfc to find fault with a man for not giving away his land to the first comer that asks for it. Mr Mills, however, himself does not act on this principle, but takes care that his services, such as they are, shall be well paid for, as the unsuspecting ratepayers nearly found to their cost. It is sickening to find a man posing as a patriot and sending in his bill in the end. Mr Cox and myself were always willing to give our land without compensation if the fencing was done. The “Tauranga Council however could not take the land legally and the Government would not, so that the work came to a standstill, and, though Mr Mills may not believe it, this has been a serious los3 to me. I have as everyone knows always advocated Thompson’s track in the Piako County Council; but I will always lift up my voice against any attempt to palm off on us anything less than a I.6ft coach road, and will always protest against any paltry electioneering dodges such as I strongly suspect this to be. —I am, etc., W. H. Herries.