Correspondence

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42780, 19 September 1905, Page 2

Correspondence

flTe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. To the Editor

Sir, —Your correspondent, “John Williams,” seems to have quite got off his perch over his beloved Government. Why he should make the statements and use the terms he did in his first letter, and then back down,, and apologise, causes one to wonder whether he wrote that first letter, or merely lent his name to it. Now sir, Mr William’s first letter was very agreeble reading to a large number of your readers, myself included, and why he should have seen fit to back down, we would veiy much like him to explain. I am credibly informed that “ John’’ and “Dick” were at the West Coast diggings together, and that a certain attachment still exists between them, but surely that is not sufficient to frighten a man after he has been speaking the truth, as I consider this first letter to be truthful and to the point. Whether I am an old resident matters not, as l think I know quite as much as “John Williams” does about his pet Governments generosity (?) tq Te Aroha, and consider they have not treated us in a fair or just spirit. Compare the ex • penditure at Rotorua or Hanmer, and set it against the magnificent (?) improvements your correspondent prates about in his second effusion. Why, sir, we have not had one-twentieth of the attention < ur health-giving waters demand, but I am afraid I am only beating the air in telling your extremely apologetic correspondent that, as I feel 6ure lie is quite prepared to swallow those unseemly shelter sheds, to wit, the Te Aroha Railway Station buildings in defence of his so called Liberal, and as he would like us to believe generous (?) Government. His eulogy of Messrs Dalton and Stanley is quite uncalled for, and has nothing to do with the matter he set out to complain of, and why they should get a cheap advertisement, as against others equally, or more deserving in the Tourist Department service here, would also stand a little explanation. As I said in my last, the present party in power will receive an awakening at the elections, and neither “ John Williams ” or any touterforthe Seddon Party is going to get Te Aroha voters to believe th.qt they have received either fair or courteous treatment in the just demands they have repeatedly made for the necessary improveme >t of their Railway Station. —1 am, efo, “ Rip Van Winkle.”