THOMPSON’S TRACK.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1730, 13 April 1895, Page 2

THOMPSON’S TRACK.

(to the Editor.)

Sir, —Mr Herries in his letter of today indulges in a lot of fudge and flapdoodle anent the great Liberal party, the present Ministry, etc., etc., which any schoolboy would tell him has nothing to do with the subject matter under debate, viz., as to whether I knew all along that Thompson’s track was only to be made 8 feet wide. When I disputed his assertion to that effect, he accepted my denial, and then made another statement relative to a conversation on the Te Aroha racecourse, equally unveracious. Now he leaves it to the ratepayers, of course they kuow as much about the matter as Mr Herrms and no more. He also says “ Mr Mills is the first, and I hope the last, to find fault with a man for not giving away his land to the first comer that asks for it.” I never did anything of the sort, as any one will see on looking at your paper of last Saturday I would remind Mr Herries that mud slinging is not argument, and that my being, a J.P. does not prove his statement to be true, anymore than if ho had stated that I had swallowed a baby. He says “he has always advocated Thompson’s track in the Piako County Council,” and he might have added and got paid for it. Of course a turnip grower ha 3 a right to get paid; but a carpenter, ah ! that, is an apple of another tree. He says “ I have drawn a reel herring across the scent,” hnd “ will always protest against my pal try electioneering dodges such as I strongly suspect this to be ” I have all along suspected that Mr Herries was on this track, and have been informed by several settlers in his neighbourhood that he intended to contest the Waikato at the next election. Well, I wish him all the luck he deserves, and I have no doubt if this correspondence were forwarded to a certain association in Auckland they would se9 that he is possessed, of the necessary qualification, and give him a ride on the national ags.—l am, etc., .... ' James Mills. April 4th, 1895.