THOMPSON’S TRACK

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1731, 17 April 1895, Page 2

THOMPSON’S TRACK

(to the Editor.)

Sir, —It is a pity that Mr Mills’ friends do not look after him better and prevent him from writing such hopelessly idotic letters as that which appeared in your issue of the 13th. There is neither point nor argument in it. However, I expect that both you, sir, and your readers are quite tired of us both ; so to put an end to the discussion I challange Mr Mills or any other Government supporter to disprove my assertion that the Government are wasting money by making Thompson’s track only Bft wide, and I also challange him to give an authoritative assurance that the Government will widen the track, and to state to what width they will widen it, and whether they intend to finish it before the next election. The public have a right,- I think, to know those things. As far as I myself am concerned I challenge Mr Mills to prove his statement that I am. well paid for advocating the track in the Piako County Council, ..or to show that I gain any advantage whatsoever from the track passing through my land; fur he must remem ber that I only ask the Government to fence one side and have to fence the other myself.—l am, etc.,

W. H. Herri ?s.

Shaftesbury, April 13 th, 1895.

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Sir,-—As I know there are some men here who deserve to get employment, but who are not fortunate enough to obtain it through being too late in the field, or being left out by ballot, or other causes. I may be excused if I suggest to the gentleman in charge of the co-operative works in this neighbourhood, the pertinency of giving those industrous men out of work a job in the place of those who are supposed to be at work on the railway line, but who only work occassionally. I have noticed two or three of these men loitering round the streets for days at a times half drunk, and only working when they think fit, to the annoyance of their mates, ana to the satisfaction of no one, except, per haps, the publicans. Would it not be fair dealing then to dismiss those fellows and give thrify men, who would work, a chance to live.—l am, etc., Willing. Te Aroha, April 13th, 1895.