CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

POBBST RESERVES. (To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of 10th Inst., there appeared in a report of the proceedings of the New Plymouth Tourist and. Expansion League the stateiueut that this Federation had raised the question of utilising for settlement certain parts of “reserves set aside for scenery." Such suggestion certainly did not emanate from this Federation and for your information I enclose herewith copy of my letter to the secretary of the Expansion League denying the allegation. I trust you will give publicity to this denial.—l am, etc., ARTHUR SEED. Acting Secretary. Wellington, November 15. [The protest arose as the result of a discussion at the last meeting of the Egmant County Council following the reading of a circular from the Sawmillers' Association suggesting certain amendments to the Forestry Bill. A councillor said that “briefly the circular advocated curtailing the areas set apart for forests in the interests of settlement.” That, and the suggestion made that Mt. Egmdnt Reserve should be cut Into, was sufficient justification for the spirited protest made by the Tourist and Expansion League against any interference with forest reservations, scenic or otherwise.—Ed.] OUR PATRIOTIC COUNCIL. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It Is with a good deal of regret, mingled with no small amount -of amusement, that I read of the report of tte council, supposed to be our town fathers, re the War Memorial, ft seems rather amusing to one who served his time overseas, up to your waist in mud and water at times, giving our all, and risking everything we possess, including life.

which’ to us all is very dear, to read that dur own selected leaders for New Plymouth, cannot see their way clear to sacrifice a small portion of land which some day may be valuable, just to remind the rising generation, and the generations to come, of all the heroes who lost their all, over there. What a- pity “Bill" Massey did not guarantee to

us before we left that we would only lose an arm, or finger, or ear as the case may be, but, no, you took what Fritz, or sometimes our own artillery used to give you, and when we ask for a memorial for the fallen it 'is too paltry an item to give a bit of land for. If our town fathers are looking for economy in the matter, I for one would advise them to put the whole' business off for a tittie, just in case we can scrape up another war, and then the one memorial would suffice for the two events. One has only to look around the surrounding districts and we find most of them have already erected their memorial, but poor New Plymouth is still haggling over a piece of land. I believe that I have read in your paper before to-day “Advance New Plymouth.” Make it next time “God Help New Plymouth.” Thanking you in anticipation, and trusting same abler pen than mine will slather the council up till they do something.—J am, etc., HALF-A-MO.