MR McMINN, HIS QUALIFICATION.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 555, 9 December 1875, Page 3

MR McMINN, HIS QUALIFICATION.

Sib,— As Mr McMinn has not yet announced *his|'intenlion of favouring, Hamilton with his viewron public nutters, And I may not' hat a an of asking that gentleman one or two < question!, may 'l' do so through" the columns of .-your journal, sin the first place, he says-he- was : ■asked to come forward. Who asked htm, or wha, •told him he was the man to $11 tWfiirat place in . Waipa constituency ? Hap he occupied that conspicuouetpoeition^on all public occaaions that lead him' to suppose he had earned l(he jproud position of our Representative P I believe -he ha* done hia duty as chairman a£ th,p Harapipi Highway Board, but that does 'aotftuattfy him, for the position 'he aims at, neither does , his knowledge of the Waipa and Raglan roads qualify him. In the discussion, on the Abolition question, a question of the greatest importance to all out districts, Mr McMinn was conspici^us by his silence. I have also studied tie reports of meet* 'ings where the welfare of .'the district was at stake, "but I never find Mr McMinn taking even a subordinate position in those, meetings, nl ■would ask him if his social portion and influence, his talents and ability astk ipublb speaker and 'debater, areJUchas'to entitle him to that place in the House of Representatives ; . the , member, fof the Waipa should occupy, the equal of any" man -in the Housee? In'his speech at Alexandra he does not approve of the manner, of, purchase, of native land, and would introduce c .re/orni. 4J 'Vv ill Mr McMima.pleaßt |tato w tiafc "experience he Tia a had in the'tnitter, or if he professts mpn ability than Sir Donald McLean who i»the n^ost popular' minister of the Government, *nd who nas the control of this department. A* the Waipa and Raglan roads appear to be his trump cards, >does he think no other person knows anything., •about them, or does he think the electori,if they ' 'were sure of getting this small boon through his ■influence, are going to sacrifice the general wel<fare at such a price. -Mr Editor the above is not written with any wish tq give offence to '$x [ McMinn^ or his friends, and I know "be has many, 'bat a man who enters on the arena of politics, and aims at taking a stand in the foremost ranks t inu-t -expect' crooked quwtioni^anoV^wishT £ur n; to sit down calmly away from gwiioise' of bis•chiiaren or a public meeting, and more fully .givejis his views on jtfhbtto metteis, as we have ha^Hfe few opportunities of basking in the rays of his eloquence. — I am, Ac, Mk&3». 4