TRUSTS LANDS TRUST ELECTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8451, 30 May 1907, Page 5

TRUSTS LANDS TRUST ELECTION.

MR W. H. JACKSON'S CANDIDATURE. (To the Editor). Sir, —The election of candidates for the Trust Lands Trust takes place to-day. If the residents of Lansdowne (who have votes) are alive to their own interests they will support candidates who have no axe to grind, and who will favour a subsidy towards the Lansdowne School. Mr W. H. Jackson says that he has no axe to grind, and that he desires to do the best he can for our children. Why does he so strongly oppose the school if he is so generous and has no axe to grind? : ; The Education Board say they have no funds. Our main hope, then is assistance from the Trust; but if we support candidates who are in opposition to us, how can we expect assistance towards our school? Let us make it a point to vote for the right men, and, perhaps, we may eventually receive the help we so urgently require.?—l am, etc., H. E. GOSNELL, Lansdowne, May 29th, IS 07. (As publication of Mr Gosnell's letter on the day of the election would have allowed Mr Jackson no opportunity of replying until the election was over, we, with Mr Gosnell's consent, communicated the contents of the letter to Mr Jackson, who has forwarded the following reply.—Ed. WiA.) (To the Editor). Sir,— Through your "courtesy I am enabled to reply to the letter of Mr H. E. Gosnell, published in your issue of to-day. I am glad of the opportunity of assuring Mr Gosnell that if I am elected to the Trust, I shall strongly advocate a grant to the Lansdowne School, as also to the Te Ore Ore School, and the Fernridge School. The first paragraph in my address, published in your issue of yesterday, should make this clear, and an assurance on the point unnecessary. Mr Gosnell gives good advice to the electors to vote for the men who have no axes to grind. I have no axe to grind. If I am elected to the Trust, however, I shall help all I can to grind the axes of the two thousand children of the Masterton Small Farm Settlement—the Lansdowne children included.—:l am, Jtc, W. H. JACKSON.