Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1895. COGITATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1780, 19 October 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1895. COGITATION.

“ He that culleth a thing into hit mind whether bv impression or records* ’ <■; tion, i-ogitatetl.i and considered/; and he that employeth the faculty *” of his igncy *l-o cdgitateih.” 1 —Loan Bacon. One dr two of our contemporaries seem to doubt the statement which we . advanced with* refer-' Te Arotta once to Te Aroha boSanaxorium. iug the most popular ■- health resort-of the Southern Hemisphere, many have claimed that Rotorua occupied that position, It is probable that those who think Rotorua stands first havo arrived at tl e *• decision fx*om the amount of : prominence g: ven to that place by the Govor iment, for not only do they favour Rotorua with handsome grants and an abundance of-’ free advertising, which we do well to eiivey, but in a thousan l and on; ways do they show tlpir preference for Rotorua, set determination to popularize the place evon at the expense of less favoured Sanatoriums v which have quite as much claim upon the public purse as Rotorua. We do : not envy afly place the attained but we* do complain at the manifest in j ustice of running on place to the detriment of others. * Notwithstanding the'£sooo per annum of public money spent in maintaining - the Sanatorium the advertising and numerous other favours bestowed upon. Rotorua, To Aroha- oan, Altogether unaided, still maintain iho lead. There are more touri«)B and nvalids visit Te Aroha,cons l qut n y alarg r revenue is rived from the baths than at Rotorua. If piioof of :w;int )d, we cull from the Hot Lake s Chrbnicle tte following ,'^ni^.'i^\to'^the';numßor:';6f'''-baths : ' and- tlie : revenue derived ;from same for the past; six months./ Im /reference "to Ihe figures' our esreemed;cbntemp;>rary. says;:/. ?We have reason to congratulate o u rselves on the satis factory condition disclosed by those figures.’ - The figures of the To Aroha baths-were kindly supplied to us bj? the Clerk'of the Hot Springs ..Domain Board., v

The relative positiou of the two places will be seen at a glance. Te Aroha’s nv°nue from "lie baths is £6 17s 6d inadv.mcool Rotorua, besides Which the Domain. Board have received the sum of £25 17s lOd for hire of towels and subscriptions to' the library, for the same .period, and the only support that the Board get is obtained from ordinary revenue, and if in'meir'entei7)riSe» :they.should , .‘-overrun tho constable,’ they aie hpund to, give /personalise-' curity for; the payment’of the* overdraft/ This ought not to.be.:

; Neitv Zeiiland should haye^ffier owhf mint/' It is la /pi’etty ' commentary" -on ■' the Government that

a-mint for/ , the people should be New Zealand dependent on the L >n- /• don mint for the gold silver, / and : money- xeqUired./ Sydney and Melbourne have thojr mints for gold coinage, and these mints should also be available for the coinage of the silver aud copper currency. • So should a mint in New Zealand. - During one year..recently this colony imported Ll 30.000 of silve:* and copper coins. The metal in these coins cost only about. L30,0C0, ’so that the London mint made a clean sweep of .LIOOjOOO o,ut. of' the pockets of the people of this colony, the only service for which was a small cost of running the silver and copper coins through the mint. The. same thing goes on more : or li ss every year./ If the Treasurer had, when at Home, arranged for tin establishment.of a New Z alan 1 mint, instead of the old tr’ek of floating the colony’s bonds ats veralunits ’ess than their full vilud, he w >u’d have deserved tho thanks of the e ; -1.. Now. Zealand produces .a i on.! e able amount of gidd, •'which/ miglit just as well be minted in Wel-‘ linghon as in Sydne}', Melbourne, and Loudon ; while, in the minting of silver and copper coins, tho large profit between the price of the metal and the money .value of the coin, as hsuedfrom the mint, ought to go to our . own, inst ad of to the Imperial Governm nt. The present method of Imperial minting is simply, an ingenious' method of robbing the colonies.

Kotoetja.'' Te Aboha: ' ■' Baths 7 Cash Baths Cash April 2769 4P 7 9 April (3157 44 19 4 May; L49S 23 1(» 3 May 1649 36; 108 Juno 1258 22 3 3 •Tune 927 18 16 10 July 1205 23 15 3 July 868 17 10 4 Au». 868 14 16 3 Aug. 947 20 19 0 Sept. 1344 24 2 3 Sept. 1JW, *?fi r 4 Tl. 8942 158 0 0 Tl. 7833 164 i7 6