Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. A CONTRADICTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 80, 4 December 1900, Page 3

Correspondents' opinions are not necessarily ours. A CONTRADICTION.

£TO !THE EDITOR. . But, — A. statement has *b«en given. publicity to in Waimafce fchafc there is a scarcity di brides in Sfche feown and that we shall soon have to import atone for building purposes. I wish to inform the public,' through your journal, that there is not the slightest foundation for such a statement. I f bave 40,000 bricks i in my yard at the present time,| clay is plentiful and se is 'labour,; so that I would have no difficulty"in supplying any demand that! might be made. The reason I wish this thoroughly understood is bpcause some people might believe! the statement and «end elsewhere; for their requirementa, and evei?y-« where it should be the aim of the people to keep their money in their ;own town if possible. — =1 am, etc., Thoius Hawkins. "1

TO TUB EDITOR. .' Sir, — In the corregpondonce^ uoolumn of your lest -issue, on the, >lst mst., appears rather an insulting, note signed " Ambitious," in which' ■-he states there ata " carping, icfitics," and if they have patience ?the town will grow. Many people] *u:e not like *- Ambiiroua"^ their; patiencs is almost exhausted, hence they become "carping -^ritics."^ 3STow, Sir, if Waitnaf-e had advancedin proportion to other inland tow'nsj <oi the same age in the colony, therei vwould -be-less " carping critics" andf ■TQore genuine ambition among its! j inhabitants, and fat 4eee a number of papilionaceous in&viduflls, such as " Ambitious " and his crew. — I am, eto;, Never Sat Die.