WAITOA DRAINS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4481, 28 October 1909, Page 3

WAITOA DRAINS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In these enlightened days one would hardly credit that men like Messrs S. Bellamy, Thos. Gavin, and Mclndoe would have the audacity to try and blind the Waitoa settlers to their own interests, but such seems to be the case. I notice the above-named gentlemen have called a meeting of ratepayers. Now, sir, I ask what has any of these convenors ever done for the Waitoa Estate or the settlers in particular ? I maintain that they have kept the district back. Why there is not a resident settler amongst them. True, Mr S. Bellamy owns something like 143 acres of the Estate, but you have only to look at the 143 acres to see the class of settler he is. Then we have Mr Thos. Gavin, who has no monetary interest within the Waitoa Drainage area, and Mr Thos. Mclndoe I understand is part owner of 267 acres. This property also speaks for itself, being now more neglected than it was three years ago. And these men try to make the hard working resident settlers believe that they have the drainage of the Waitoa Estate at heart. lam of the opinion that there must be a blunt axe or two somewhere amongst the convenors. Time will tell.—l am, etc., No. 7*

Waitoa, Oct. 26.