HAMILTON PUBLIC HALL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 595, 14 March 1876, Page 3

HAMILTON PUBLIC HALL.

Sib, —The Public Hall fever whioh was at its height just beforo Christmas seems |to have died out altogether. Alexandra and Te Awamutu can each hare their public -building! of this kind, and when thej hold an entertainment realise, not a paltry #d f or£6, but some £30 to £40 toward* paying off the balance of debt on the building as I recently witnessed >in the former ■settlement. There is something rotten in the stite of Denmark wheD the moit thriving settlement in the district ia left behind in §uch matters. It is not want of means nor yet of well to do settlers, but want of unanimity and polling together thrt leaves Hamilton in such inatteri all behind the rost of the dutrict. Delf wont work vrith common pottery, and China won't work with delf, and aftor ail-when the clay of which all three are ootnpossed is analysed theio is found to be so litfclo difference that real porcelain when it comes amongst us only smiles with contempt and wondora what all tlioie inferior classes of crockery have been quarelhng and jostling each other about. In other parts of the district the "jam tart " element does not exist, and if they havo a great man or two among them there *re not to be found a clique who for the sake of hanging on to the skirti of Society are oontent to make themselves lacqueyi and fetch and carry spaniels. When Ngaruawahia moves in a public matter, as witness tin dinner given to Mr liume last week, she moveas one man, and we find a community smaller than our own sitting down to dinner to the number of from fifty to sixty, from the Tillage blacksmith to the leading settler in the district. Just so in the other settlements, the people pull together as one family and the result n success in all suoh matters. Qr.e of th» up country Mtttlements did not hesitate to enter on the building of a publio hall even though a debt of £100 remained upon it, well knowing that the inhabitants would stand shoulder to shoulder and work with a will till the debt was paid off. Jtuapity, Sir, but that the same thing ooald Le done here »nd that a little more show of pnblic spirit would give us a title to the rank we ( laim of leading settlement of the dUtrict. — I am,&c, Old Idintitt. Hamilton West, March 13th, 1876.