OUR LETTER BOX.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 2, 4 January 1904, Page 2

OUR LETTER BOX.

(We are at all times willing to publish correspondence oil mutters of public interest, but it must be distinctly understood that w« are not identiiied with tho letters of our correspondents.—Ed. Daily Novtb.) IIOLIDAV ATTUACTIONS. (To the Editor). Kir,—ln u recent lender you advocated that New Plymouth .should make piwisiwn at Ohristnms time for attracting the people from our ova •district utiiil omtside to sjusid their holidays in Mew Plymouth. A laigv influx of people at this particular time would caiisi'dorilbly increase the business as well as helping' to estulbliwh New Plymouth «s tii.'e iiL'otro)i;|uiiis of TtuMnaikii—oin ideal which every citizen should keep in mind. Jf iL were possible for us to really lealiwe what dirt inaction means in W.v lyss of pnwtijje to us a" a oonumurity we uhiorald speedily to make the next UJvristiinas IjjJiiinv brisrfrt and attractive. Horn*.* of c|iir tradespeople 'lmvo if.vn llament'iiiig' tho lack of bus-mesa during* the present lestiive stiafcioitY. Is it to lx* wwa.lerod at, wht'ii e-verv otter place down the line hias toil Milking provision to attract our people witji the very laindiafale d«wnv, of course, to keep to tho front tjivi duveiwp t'ljeir on locality? Aini jet New Plymouth people will osily Cloak ami .say that the Christmas time of to-day is not lite it used to i.l.'. J'he incivu-sed attractioms that New Plymouth' cam offer to o<ur cuulittry people by way of public baths, Ivocj cation Oro'U'iKl'ir, as well us other spots of local beaiuty, should m; themselves be sufliciant attractions, but along with those places of local interest nmgt be tihe effort om our part to attract tho peoplo. With vigorous nmmtumtoat n three iJuys curjL'ivial cuuld be run, alongi with a trip up the Sdokoiu and the ascent of Mount Eginont. New Plymouth people must really take tho letud in tluo matter, o/ii,d !>y Presu amid pamphlet and Toiuriwt Guide have every iirfornuatiom as to routo, cost, wuki means of trainnil, sup,plied to visitc/.s. M-i'giUt I suggest, Sir, tlnat tihe Committee set up by the Uou'<Aiyh Council re tine Mbikau River taike tihis matter in haasd, aniil from tho very btiginning of Wilis year put into operations ii4>Mic!es thjit vvill roinovo jrom us as a ccmmrunity tihe reproach that New Plymouth is lmiikiniy' no piovisiun to attract the people of our mvn dintrict to the 'beautiAil little town of New Plymouth at Christmas time.—l nni, etc., ADVANCE NEW PLYMOUTH,