MR EDGELER’S SCHEME.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1875, 6 April 1889, Page 2

MR EDGELER’S SCHEME.

TO THE EDITOR, Sir, —Will you kindly permit me to make a few more remarks upon Mr Edgeler’s second letter. He declares that the work is to be done by hand labor, and not by machinery. How he will thresh his grain and grind his wheat into flour I cannot imagine. Then bow is Mr Edgeler and the society of nine men to live during the six months while they are digging up their five acres each, to say nothing about the remaining five months ? Just look at the high price he proposes to rent the land at! Dive acres £5, 5a 3d every calendar month, lOs as a first instalment, and 6d for incidentals, making £8 13s 6d for the first twelve months. Dear rent that, to say nothing about the rates that would be coming upon them. Mr Edgeler surely would not deem it inquisitive on my part if I I ask him what bank lie intends to r '^ v put the society’s money in. My next remark is, surely Mr Edgeler should not dictate in whit way the men

ought to dispose of their produce, nor they to him. If he chooses to make his barley into malt and brew a little home-made beer, and make up for lost time, all very good. The fact is, Mr Edgeler’s scheme is not workable; it

is childish, to say the least of it. Let Mr Edgeler keep to local improvements—make the two town boards into a borough, build a good town hall, remove the pound away from the people’s park, and also the R.M. Court from its unsightly position. Here is some work for Mr Edgeler tcyrgitate for. I am beginning to think that Mr Edgeler is raising his land scheme as an electioneering cry. —I am, etc., G.H., E.H.C. Arowhenua, April 4,1889.