NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 144, 9 June 1908, Page 3

NEW PLYMOUTH HARBOR BILL.

To the Kilitor. Nir.—ln your hudcr of the jth mA. appears a criticism tsavc the mark!) of Mr. .Marx and myself in reference to aluovc. The former gentleman will no doubt reply, and can. from what 1 know of him. easiU hold hi- end of the stick up. No doubt w.ur allusion to invxdf ivj- written in an cxcilablo mood. -The wish was father to the thought." "'l"lie emblem of trulh" certainly was not stamped on your pen «■!».■« writing. Had you waited till your nerves came down from cuncertpiteh and waived biassed feelings, no doubt you would have noticed your mistake". Young editor- are only human and liable to write before they think.

The Mr. Hughes who mentioned having a harbor at Maliaia i- a newcomer to the district (vide report K.ipuni meeting). I was not at the meeting. I have never promised to have my land included in the Opnnake harbor district. Mv support towards Opuuakc having a harbor has not vanished. 1 still think Opunake and I'atea should take in this coast, lair plav is bonnie play.—l am, etc., ' DAN. J. UUCiIIES. Manaia, tith June.

[We arc pirated to receive, as well as to accept, Mr. Hughes' assurances. We quoted from a local paper's report, anil the alienee of initials wai responsible for tlie mistake on our part, We never imagined tliat there was another .Mr. Hughes in the Wainiate district so leassed against the harbor proposals and so Wind to the best interests of the harbor district as a whole as Mr. Dan. Hughes. 'J'lie fact (hat Mr. Hughes, the newcomer, holds the views, untenable as they are, to which he has ffivt-ii expression, only goes to show the necessity tor putting the true pnsiliim in regard In liarhor matlcrs boloiv (lie Waimalc people, who. so far. have |,id oulv the ex parte and distorted 1 statenieiils ol' Mr. Mar\ ami the rent | Mr. Hughes placed before Ilium.—lul.J