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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7915, 2 September 1905, Page 2

Our Letter Box.

(We ave not- responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.) THE WHANGAMOMONA RAILWAY PETITION. (To the Editor.) Sir,—l will be obliged if you will kindly publish the following, as 1 think I should be allowed to contradiet the letters of Messrs Curie ami .McCluggage, also the editor of the Budget. Hie following are the faets of tho position V.hen the railway petition was sent round for signature, the reference therein to the 'dairy industry was not strong enough to suit Mr MeCluggagc, whose firm sent up a clause to be inserted, so as to make the reference far stronger. Mr Mcduggagc is now -highly indignant. a t my calling it a frost. The present chairman of directors fold Mr MeCluggage in my presence that I was right, and that he could call it by no other name. Three years ago the factory was for £I7OO, and it now owes tJoOU. It has gone into debt £8 pet week while it worked.

Mr JfcCltiggaga also stated that the cartage is only £7 per ton from Stratlord in. May be, but this statement does not explain away or contradict the fact U iut wo ;.avi= to pay from £7 to £l2O more per ton for our goods than the Stratford prices. Of course, the settlers do not get their goods in "per ton," but they have to pay these prices retail

In reference to the statement of Mr A. Cij Curie that the factory paid out 7d for the first two months and 7d after April, it is really amusing, but I presume the first two months would mean August and September, when they were promised .(I, but no milk was supplied in those months ; and as the factory closed down in tho middle of April, 1 fail to sec how Mr JJurlo could have paid 7d after it closed. This makes ni3 r statement' correct, viz., that they paid 6}d after keeping Jd for sinking fund. Now, Sir, the editor of the Budget held these facts in hand for publication, with a letter from the Chairman of tho Railway League, but he refused to publish them, as it would have put them all in the wrong. I should like to ask'him if ho wanted the names of the mem-, bets of the Leaguo to cause them to be boycotted, or what ?—I am, etc., E. M. IZETT.