CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4425, 17 June 1909, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We are net responsible for the opinion? expressed by our correspondents.)

(To the Editor) Sill, - Mr John Williams in his letter published in your issue of June loth, is evidently trying to draw a red herring across the line. He knows very well j that the lit. Hon. R. Seddon had nothing i to do with the case of the Mr Joseph Seddon I mentioned in my letter, so that whoever wrote the letter for Mr J. Williams, ought to have drawn his (Mr Williams’) attention to this fact before getting him to sign it. In the letter I mentioned re Mr Williams running down the "Seddon Government,”l understand Mr Williams did not read it over befoie signing it, otherwise he would uot have signed it, It only shows how very c ireful one ought to be in picking out a private secretary. As for his thanks re my advertising his goods —Well, our American cousins say, “ if one wants to sell trash, always adveitise well,” so I am glad if I have been able to help him to get rid of some of his articles. Ke Mr Seddon playing £I,OOO on the estimates for a Bath House, Mr Williams seems to forget this is not Mr Seddon’s money, but money belonging t o the public, and gooduess only knows that little enough of the public money found its way into the North Island in those days. I do not object to the Government sending money here ; what I object t \ is throwing public money away on useless buildjugs suoli as a tea kiosk. If 1 objected jo mopey being spent by our Government have l not a good eh.anoe now; when after spending AGIO which was voted by Parliament for the use of the pqblic of To Aroha, for an Emergency Ward, pud bn which the Government, have been receiving 9s per week, they— Government - refuse to assist us as regards an hospital, then hand over £230 to the Bowling Club, desttoy the tennis grounds, out down the lino old willows in our Domain, and seem to be tiying to show the j’ubjjy of To Aroha that they don't turn 1 one iota for the opinion of the Ty v\rolm pqblic, oy the looks of the Domain. When the Minister was how, tin public never heard that tip' grand old willows were going to he cur down, pow results prove lf\o nnderlmud work that must havp b««en quietly carried on, pud which tf\e Government authorities seem to have taken particular care the ppblic were pot to know about until the destruction of the trees was an accomplished fpet. Mr Williams will agree With nil this I have no doubt.—l am, etc., '

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