“GOING TO MR SEMPLE”
LETTER TO POWER BOARD.
•WAVING THE BIG STICK.”
(“Times-Age” Special.)
The Wairarapa Electric Power Board concluded a heavy day’s business yesterday with a round of laughs when a young settler in the Hinakura district wrote asking that the' power supply, should be extended to the district on a reasonable guarantee basis. "We have been advised,” the letter added, “if the board will not give us the power, to go to Mr Semple.” Mr W. Howard Booth: “People have gone to Mr Semple before and been referred back to the board.” The chairman, Mr A. Campbell Pearce: “These letters do not do any good. It is out of place for young chaps to write like that.”
Mr F. C. Daniell: “Tell him we will welcome him going to Mr Semple, and let him see if he can do more than we can for him.”
Mr H. P. Hugo! “It is waving the big stick.”
It was decided that the chairman and the secretary-manager reply to the letter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1939, Page 4
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