MILTON POST-OFFICE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 243, 26 September 1872, Page 8

MILTON POST-OFFICE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — The good town of Lawrence is happily free from such Mayoral administration as our unfortunate neighbour, the township of Milton, is honored with, but that may not debar us from a generosity and public spiritedness which raay at some time prompt some of our townsfolks to emulate Mr. Coombe in a free gift for some public edifice, though the treatment to which he has been subjected, both by the Government, and an opposition party in Milton,- will go far to damp any liberality in a simialr direction. As an outsider, I can only aay that, judging from Mr. Coombe's letter in your paper of the 19th inst., he has received but scant gratitude and no courtesy from the Government House of the M-il-tonians, and so far as I can learn, his gift is not only disinterested, but almost a solitary instance of any man in the colony coming forward in. an equally handsome manner. I can well believe that' had his offer not been closed with, Milton would have been, for some years, forced to remain content with the pitiful apology for an p.fE,ce now in use, as Government had a good argument against expending money in improving a township which has sprung up under private ownership, and which it had not the benefit of selling as town sections, though this applies more to the Provincial Government. I believe the grant of the old site was made by Mr. ]\Jansford, where sections might be had at about £5 each, instead of, as, I am told, valuing nqw £5 a foot, like Mr. Coombe's, which was recently bought by him. I need not enumerate the splendid edifices,, th.c result of free gifts, which embellish the city of Edinburgh. To illustrate their benefits^' though, I sincerely hope, similar, lib^r-*

ality wili^pfdve infectious to. the extent of , every Wmbef of theMijton Town Council cbmmg down with £50 towards the erection of an hospital on the site of the old Post-office— an,. institution much required in the district ; not only in case of accidents, but in event" of the outbreak, of small pox, cholera, typhus fever. &c. — I am, &c,

Medicus.