Correspondence

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42781, 21 September 1905, Page 2

Correspondence

Ye do not ho'd ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. To the Editor

Dear Sir, —The letter over the signature of John Williams, in ycur issue of Saturday, takes me very much by surprise as i thought Mr Williams knew our Premier better than t to think bolstering or propping up would help liim in any way. If he had suggested the clearin 0 * away of the rubbish that circulates around and impedes his movements, then I would have said, good. • He (Mr Williams) also refers to another letter that appeared, which he thinks must certainly he from a very new chum, while X am of quite a different opinion ; hut seeing that the writer withholds his real name, I give it best. Re our Railway Station: I agree that we certainly have a solidi grievance which has existed ever since it was placed where it is, leaving vacant the proper site, laid out and prepared by able and experienced surveyers and engineers, one at least of whom fought hard against the laying

down of the present station, giving- some veryforcible reasons for so objecting, but of course he was only a servant and the job had to be done, somehow,' so that the Native owners might get a good fat cheque for the land, as. if their claim had right to be supreme. e Coming to our Domain, big sums of jnonejr have been granted every session, and no doubt, the Cadman Baths is a fine building but here again, the engineer and his plans were so interfered with that the less said abontits erection the better. The wan now in the Domain mentioned by- Mr Williams, may be ' all he claims for them, but when Mr McKee left Ms position, as caretaker it, took the kerne out of the copoanut, Before Mr Seddon look office and got into

power and tor some time alter, ne was agaiust borrowing; but now he has got so lapped up with various bodies, called Boards, a Natives Department and Licensing Benches, that, borrow Ihe must in order to keep them all going, while they aro choking the development of the country the-.production of wealth. It is current gossip, that a Licensing Bench received, a bribe of £6oft over one transaction, so it would appear there is money in it, while (he country would he much better governed without the intervention of them a afi, and the same will apply to the Education, and, Land Boards. As for the Native Department it is high time it was rubbed clean out,, and let the Natives do as other people," 'Gfeen „ our Premier having cleared his deck, is quiteable to captain our ship till further orders. —- I am, etc., Robert Mackie,