THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1912. THE TRUST ELECTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10645, 29 May 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1912. THE TRUST ELECTION.

The voters of tiie Master ton Small Farm Settlement have the responsibility cast upon 'them of selecting three Trustees tonnorrow to ■represent their interests for the coming term. The responsibility as one which cannot be lightly set aside, for every man and woman in the community must fesl an interest in the Mv#fa<re of the rising generation. The Trust was originally formed with the object of enabling ifthe sons and daughters of .the poorer people to equip themselves with .the education which ui those days 'was neither free nor compulsory. When the Education Act of .1877 was. passed, the necessity for assisting the 'poorer people -was•' removed, aiid the ' 'Legislature, in its wisdom, decided 'that the funds of the Trust might be 'expended for ike purposes of utility 'as well as education. For the .lasttwenty or thirty years the Trustees 'have exercised /the night fetowed upon them .by Parliament .with .more or lees discretion. They have assisted many i : looal institutions, and have pursued a course in regard to .building on vacant sections whicih hag 'been endorsed the voters, though it mny bd (/p eu \ Q criticism. So far M ' Can discover, the Trustees actuated with a desire itG do die very best .they can foi' present and future generations. , At times .tiiey have made mistakes, as all public 'bodies are prone to do, but taking them ibig and large, they have done .their work honourably and well. At the present time the voters are being .asked to say whether the Trustees hove- ,done anything to forfeit the confidence reposed in thorn. If they have not, the voters thave no justification for seeking a change, Mr .Robinson is aisking the electors to plump if'or him, and thereby pass'a vote of no-confidence in t'he Trust. But upon what grounds does he ask for this rote ,to be expressed? Has he submitted any policy which might be reasonably substituted (for'that passed by the Trustees? What would he do wore he returned as a 'Trustee? The pub-, iic is becoming a little tired of Mr H.

C. Robinson as an obstructionist. Tt requires ,to 'know what he is .prepared to do in the way of construction. If Mr Robinson would put before the people some definite (Scheme for the 'improvement of the 'administration of the Trust, (be would be deserving of the confidence of the voters. Failing (this, however, he has no special claim ■upon the electors, and to pass a .vote 'of no-confidence in 'these who have j 'been striviiug if or 'the -welfare of the 'community would be to cast a severe ibloiv at local solf-governmnt.