CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3903, 3 September 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To THE TijDITOB.] Sir, —I read with interest a letter appearing in your issue of August 18th from Mr John Groves, junr., bearing upon the state of the Tinui to Manawa road. Amongst other items mentioned as having been expended on this road during the past year, I notice £SB Is Id for surface repairs. I should like Mr Groves or any one else to show where half of it was speni. Had this amount been properly laid out it wonld have sufficed to put watertables, culverts, and drains in repair before winter, which was not done. It would be well if our County Council members would call a meeting at Tinui and give an account of their stewardship, as ratepayers are tired of paying rates and seeing the last of them at the moment of posting their cheque to the collector.

I am, &c, B. L. Lanqdok.

Sunday Drmfflng.

(To the Editor.)

Sib.—l am not going to enter into a newspaper controversy with Mr H. E. Eton. I recognise in him a resident who abominates drunkenness, one who sets an example in this direction well woi'thy of emulation. But does not this friend of the man in blue wcupy rather a unique position in supporting the moderate party,which is known to be thoroughly opposed to the cause of temperance ? Take the advice of a friend, Mr Eton, and wield that weapon which is mightier than the sword in the defence of a cause more noble than that of whioh you now profess to be a champion. I fully appreciate the honesty and Christian spirit of those preservers of the peace who would not reprove a man for being drunk on a Sunday for fear of hurting his feelings. But, sir, you will agree with me that the interests of the public demand the exercising of the utmost vigilance in the suppression of an evil which is not only a breach of the laws of the country, but is positively degrading and abominable m its effects. That the evil ;of Sunday drink ing exists Mr Eton cannot deny. I only hope in conclusion the police will take the hint thrown out, and endeavor to stamp out a traffic whioh is both illicit and iniquitous.—l am, etc.,

Orthodoxy.