OUR LETTER BOX

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 1 July 1904, Page 2

OUR LETTER BOX

(we are at all times willing to publish aorrespondence on matters of public interest, but it must bo distinct ly understood that we are not identified with the letters ol our correspondents.—EM. Daily News.) THE LICK EH LAW. (To the Editor.) Sir, —A fortnile ago there was a clever cove along 'ere a talkin' in the Theeater »gin the licker law. He said he wanted it done away with becos "it interfered with the liberty of the subject and manufactured lawbreakers." Mister Editor, it is just the same with me, and 1 rite to ask if you cull get another law done with. J. am what they call a "crib cracker," and the law agin stcalin' very much interferes with my trade. If it were not for the law I should be able to follow my trade in a straightforward, gentlemanly manner in tho daylite As it is I have to go along dark passages in the nit a time ; 1 feel that this dark passajge and back-room business is dragging me down both fioshully and morrally. Do you think Mr Smith could get a claws passed this sesshion to help me?—^ours, etc., BILL SYICES. p.S—I should havo rote to you sooner but l'or one of those "contemptible curs of informers" gettin' ine run in for fourteen days.—U.S. NEW PLYMOUTH ON THE GRABTHE SAME 3 OLD GAME. (To the Editor.) Sir,—The meeting of delegates held at New Plymouth yesterday relative to tho Stratford hospital separation SBomed somewhat abortive. town and country around and ajbiput New Plymouth seemed to want all the advantages and Stratford nothing. At the land sale held in Stratford some years ago a site was set hpart for an hospital, in the middle !of which is a municipal reserve | which the Stratford Borough Council would undoubtedly transfer to a Stratford Hospital Board ; but to New Plymouth—it Is doubtful. I should like to aSk the Clifton County Council, through its chairman, to piiblish a return of tho amount paid by the Stratford County and Uorough Councils, also a return of the amounts paid out to this district in the shape of hospital fees and vfoaritable aid received. Stratford i&'quito ably to work out her salvation without the anslistuncc of the New Plymouth Hospital and Charitable Aid Itoand. The people of New Plymouth raid surrounding districts should wake up to the fact that it' is the country that keeps their haijbour going, and their freezing works, and that they are reaching out with both hands to make their carnival and exhibition a success by getting the country people to support it. Let them Look out they don't overstep the mark, and find the sympathies of Stratford alienated and its trade transferred to Patea—l am, otc„ SAMARITAN. Stratford, Juno 30, 1004.