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Temuka Leader, Issue 1110, 19 June 1883, Page 2

TO THE RATEPAYERS OF THE GERALDINE ROAD BOARD DIS- . TRICT. L ' Gentlemen,—! am told you ought to know the reason for my inserting au address to you stating! intended offering yon my services at the late Geraldine Road Board election, and then retiring and not standing a contested election. The state of the case is tbD. I wrote to Me Postlethwaite the following letter, which he received before he addressed the electors, but owing to his personal remarksatthat meelingin reference to myself I saw clearly he was determined not to work in harmony with me on your Board, I also received a private letter from him dated the 2nd, in which he says ‘‘ In public life 1 have always felt that our ideas were so opposite that it was impossible for us to work in harmony.” Such being the case I think yon will agree with me that I did right in retiring. 1 know from what I have been told by various people that you wish me to have a seat on your Board, but unless a good feeling exists between Mr Postlethwaite and myself lam (for ray own peace of mind) far better away. Regretting that Mr Postlethwaite will not work in harmony with me for the interest of the whole district.—l am, etc., C. G. TRIPP. Orari Gorge, 15th June, 1883. —. p j Orari Gorge, Ist June, 1883-' Dear Mb Postlethwaite,—l am a candidate for a seat on the Geraldine Road Board. If elected, I shall endeavor to work in harmony and good feeling, and I hope that nothing will disturb the peace between us. It seems the wish of several that.l should come forward. I have repeatedly declined saying, I had no wish or intention of offering myself, but I was over persuaded yesterday.—Your’s truly, ju!6 0. G. TRIPP.

rr.O IHE RATEPAYERS of the X GERALDINE ROAD BOARD DIS'IRIOT. Gentlemen, —Rarely do I trouble myself with matters appearing in the local papers, hut the address put forth to you by Mr Tripp is so entiiely at variance with facts, that 1 cannot in justice to myself allow it to pass unnoticed, and I now charge Mr Tripp with making two false statements in his letter to the ratepayers. 1 quote his own words :—“1 wrote to Mr Postletliwaite the following letter, which he received ‘ before he addressed 1 the electors.” This is false ; as I can prove that it was not handed to me till after my return from Timaru on the following day. Then, again, am Ito believe his assertion that he wished to work in harmony with me, when he had stated to Mr Flatman that he did hot wish for Ms seat on the Board, but that he intended to contest my seat ; and to another ratepayer he stated that if both of us should be elected lie would retire from the Board. 1 now ask the ratepayers to judge for themselves as to the accuracy of these two statements. Ho implies in his letter that it was through my j private letter that he resolved to retire. I am informed by one who saw him do it that he wrote out his withdrawal oh Saturday, which was actually prior to my receiving his letter, and therefore my letter ■ could not have influenced his actions in any way. In conclusion, I wish to put Mr Tripp right on another point, where he has perverted the truth ?;e Mr White’s legal opinion. 1 never stated to the Board (which the members can hear me out in) that I had got an opinion from that gentlemen, but staled when I called upon him lie was from borne, but that I imagined frorn a cursory conversation with bis managing clerk, which was quite unoflicial, that the Mount Peel Board considered that owing to a resolution some time ago. the new Board, felt itaelf relieved from any agreement which had been contracted by the former local body. Nor did I state in the annual meeting of ratepayers that I had taken a legal opinion : what I said, and which can be testified by many reliable witnesses was that I bad gone to get one, and strange to say to the same firm, but I did not get it owing to that gentlemen’s absence from borne. As 1 leave for Wellington on Monday' morning, and shall have my mind occupied . with other more important matters, I must decline to continue this unnecessary discussion. — I am, etc., ' ' ■ . W. POST LET H WAITE,

[Oorv oi Mr Postleth waite’s Letter to Mr Tripp.] . I • Rnuknpuka, 6—83, Dear Mr Tripp.—Yours of the Ist inst. duly to hand, je candidature for Road Board Election. In all matters of a public nature I think it better to speak openly. After thirty-two years of public experience I have always found the best course to pursue was to separate, public actions from private life, so that at the onset I wish to say there-ia no gentleman in the neighbourhood I have a greater respect for in private life than yourself, but in public life I have always felt' that onr ideas were so opposite, that it was impossible to work in harmony. Long before the nomination day I had heard from various' reliable sources that you . had stated , openly that it was your intention to fight or contest my seat. I felt pleased that if was so, so that dhe Ratepayers might' have an opportunity of choosing between the two policies ns they are as foreign to each other as fire and water. After my political address on Friday 1 invited the Ratepayers to record their votes for the four other members of the Board, and let the contest he between yon and myself so that the future policy of the Board might he settled once for all This I trust will be done,—Yours truly, (Signed) Wm. POSTLETH WAITE.

[Copy of Mr Fiatmax’s Letter to Mr Tripp.] Dear Sir,— Your letter of yesterday to band. Please.hear in mind 1 never mentioned Mr White or any other gentleman of thelegal profession to yon, neither did I inform you of the circulftstajice. It was more in joke than anything else. It is, astonishing how much mischief -some people make out of nothing. ANTED—A LOAD of HAY, Apply to REV. T. HAMILTON. The Parsonage, Temuka, June 11, 1883. joJ3