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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2239, 9 March 1886, Page 3

To THE Editok

Sir,—ln perusing, your ■ report; pub-; liihod in to-day's'; issue of your paper-.of amoeting of the ,T6wnvLands;;Trust;.;l: noticed that somo considerable'disciission »ro»o upon .1 question .of'the the Park Trustees having, written ..asking that 'a meeting bo convened''betw'een'.tho. : two bodies to consider, the Park. Trust's;; financial position...'.'-The Chairiifenj;;'Mr Gapper, makes ajßtatem'ont.; : ..whicl{ ho; cannot prove. He "goes so ■ far..'as that the affairs of ■ the Trust' haye'jbeeh bungled, and that the Park I 'Trustee's had ; iquandered their nioney; ; >l; will defy,Mr Gapper to prove this-.in-any'-orie respect,. The Park Trustees,:;..'ever ; iince''their, existence as have "-i me : all ; ; in: their power to make, the Park presentable to tho public, .In.'■tho''first place,'-they; had no funds, Tiiey afconco made;-fchem-. ; (olves liable to procure funds (for whom); solely for the benefit of the inhabitants of the town. Then the inhabitants have .a Town Trust vested ,iii tho hands; oT Trustees, from which .a sufficient revenue: is being derived to enable, the inhabitants': to placo the Park Trust; iha; : sound finaii-; eial position. absurd for Mr tapper ;: j6/J talk; about one Trust 1 , ■ to ; bleed ■ the other and to make;; jt/apiiilch':cow;'' : etc., etc, He surely knows .that the pro; perty entrusted the property of the people, and that 'the'; people havo a .perfect; .right'.'through another body to receiveVfrom hinvHheif; rights, and if ho reads the Act ./which-'he, 1b administrating (or.'ra'ther trating) he will sco.see there clearly..:hiid. down that he has to administer the' funds 1 of his trust for purposes of public ■ utility'.''; Clearly Mr Gapper is making ...this: apersonal matter, he is /.representing.: : -hiui!-~ self, not the people, and, as certain as'.he" Is a member of the Towii. Lands': Trusty the people will remember him should' become forward at the.iiext.election,^'■ :^';: