CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4730, 26 May 1894, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Correction. [TO THE EDITOR W. I), TIMES,] Siu.—Many thanks for your kindly notice, but you are in error about the prices we charge. We do not sell below others, but simply use the profits in carrying our literature into the more distant parts at a heavy loss, and in distributing tracts aud booklets etc. Our shareholders are not allowed to take any share of the profits to themselves. Jons Heith, For the Bihlo Society, Perry Street Footpath[To the Editor W. D. Times,] Sir,—The manuscript enclosed, having a public bearing, 1 thought I would place it at your disposal. The doings, facts and figures, that have and will stand in the sun, to shame creation by the incompetency and misrule that has prevailed in the Mnstcrton Borough Council, In fact Masterton has never been in a tit state for the Municipal Corporation Act to have been brought into full force. Cartorton Borough Council has proved a very good examplo to us—with straight and fair dealing and moderation,

I am, etc., G. W. Woodrooie. [Then follows a letter from Mi' IW. H, Beetham, suggesting to Mr Woodroofe a method by which the footpath in Pony street might be formed,] Masterton, May 25th, 1894. AV. H. Beetham Esq., Dear Sin,-In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, it is my duty to point out that you have evidently been badly informed with reference to my intentions in dealing with my property in Perry Street. In the first place I have never had the slightest objection to a footpath. Boing, before you came here, ut resident of Masterton, I took an active part in municipal affairs, on the Town Lands Trust, the Town Board, and the Borough Council. Among other things I devoted a great deal of my time to the construction of thoroughfares and street widening, offering my own land and money for the purpose, and persuading other property owners to do tho same, My reward for this sacrifice of property, time, and trouble, has been the enmity and opposition of the men who havo been from time to time olected to admi nis tei' the affairs of this town, Theso individuals in one instance prevented me from making a thoroughfare through my homestead at Columbo road, which would have been valuable to every resident in that part of the Borough. In another instance only a few years ngo, when half a chain in Kenall Street was handed over for street widening by the Town Lands Trust to the Borough ■ Council, the lattov—animated appuri ently by a spirit of pure malignity—i decided to leave a strip of four feet ■ unformed and unimproved, while ■ several of tho Council pro- . posed that it should be fenced » off, so that my property might ■ be injured, Then with regard . to the fountain, which I took an • active part in getting erected. Tho 3 Mayor and Council, instead of helpI ing to mnko it an ornament and con- [ venience to the public, have done t their best to domolisli it, and leavo it . in ruins. In the face of such con- \ temptible and perverse and childish D conduct, can you bo surprised, if I have resolved to give no more of my time, or property, to the burgesses and their idols, unless I am fully compensated. This is all I have done.—l am, etc., 6. W. WOODROOFE.