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Correspondence.

BOROUGH COUNCIL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY TO THE EDITOR Sir.—Would you allow mo a few lines in your excellent publication to enter a mild protest against the action of our worthy and estoemoJ Mayor and a majority of councillors in refusing a grant of £lO to tho above society. It seems almost inexplicable that in a flower-loving and vege; table-raising community such as this that thero could bo found a Mayor and a majority of councillors who, nothing loth to lavish money on bowling greens, tennis courts, aids to bands, etc, which, with the oxcepthn of tho lattor, benefit only a few, yot will rofuso on the score of economy a paltry ten pounds for a society whoso object is to cultivaio a taste for the'beautiful and usoful, and which would, if properly managod, convert this towninto a veritable Paradise, This suddon lust for economy which scorns to havo struck tho Connoil reminds ono of a yarn which is told of au economical councillor, I boliove, soniowhoro in Victoria, who when tho subject aroso concerning tho importation of some dozen or so of Venetian poudolaß, for the beautifying of the local lake at the time of an exhibition, raised his voice in solemn protest, as he considered by importing a mala and female gondola they could safely lonvc tho rest to nature. It is to be sineeroly hoped that tho public of Waihi will not leave the financial side of the horticultural society to nature, and also that tho Council may be porsuaded to reconsider their decision, which must strike tho average man as absurd.—lam, etc., A Lovkr or Flowkrs, and Hater of Cant,

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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1086, 6 September 1904, Page 2

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Correspondence. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1086, 6 September 1904, Page 2

Correspondence. Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1086, 6 September 1904, Page 2

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