REFRESHING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 8 January 1913, Page 4

REFRESHING.

The following is a portion of a letter which appears in a contemporary over tho signature of a gentleman who occupied a portfolio in the Ward Administration :

"Millions of borrowed money have been spent on railways for which there is no pressing heed, and on buildings that might well have been deferred, while energetic settlers through want of access to markets have been blocked and buried. I need not quote illustrations of inexcusable log rolling and squandering such as the Otago central and Otira, tunnel. The d* 1 - ' ruction of tho Governor's resid-

and grounds, and other useful ediJ.-'-s in Wellington, and the outlay going on over the proposed hew Parliamentary buildings, indicate a total absence- of regard for the- interests of the general taxpayer. 1 cmite agree with you that the Hon W. Fraser lias taken i wise >ster> in reducing the expenditure on railwavs and proposing to increase, rbe n"tlav on Toa-ds and bridsros. Although xr« have alwnvs sat on op

posite side<? nf the House. J hare

alwav: bad tb" greatest f nr ft.r, Minister of Public Worts, because of his consfstertcv. f>.nd henp'stv of puTOOse. If he ..will f> nr ,. v out lit-?,.Trrn T T>is" and alto - th«* l)ublic w" - ">"i'''>v by <r"vjn"* r»>Jwav-« nnd bm'dinsw' a K«/»V scat - sb"uV the genera!

aonroval of the community."

Con anv «f our 'mdetvs <rue&s the identity of the author of the above?