CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 630, 3 June 1876, Page 3

CAMBRIDGE.

June 2. \ A letter appears iv your last issue signed " Q." in answer to another, on the subject of the profitableness of fanning. If this u person" had kept to the subject in hand there would have been nothing to flay. Bat he makes & base insinuation ■against a class who are prevented from defending themselves. He aays if a mau does uot like work he had better join the Constabulary, as they are the only people who can live without work. Now, al"iflc&lkM. it should hardly be expected of soldiers or polioemen that they shonld ■work, we have only to look about us to see •that they not only do work, but that their work Uof a valuable description. To cite one example, I do not think the work now' being done at Martyn'a Creek could have been executed more cheaply if let by contract. u P." is of that go-about-under-the*-shadow-of-anonymity kind, throwing stones atthe A. C upon e?ery opportunity, good or 3)ad. I would not have thought ifc worth my while to notice now what I have hitherto avoided, but it is really time this *ort of mud throwing was put a stop to—Own Correspondent.