TE AWAMUTU PUBLIC MEETING.

Waikato Times, Volume XI, Issue 882, 16 February 1878, Page 3

TE AWAMUTU PUBLIC MEETING.

Sib, —Li reading the report of the above meeting on, the raUway terminus, m your issue of the 12th inst., I was much shocked at the • statements of/Mr H. Roche, ex-member of the Provincial Counoil. In studying Mr Roche's assertions they certainly appear vague, as Mr J. Henderson and several other gentlemen were present during the time that this alleged conversation with the Premier should have taken place, it does seem strange that none of these gentlemen should.have heard it, which makes the statements of Mr Roche still more doubtful. It is sad to find any: bhe bringing i forward a petition for the removal of the railway terminus from its proper site, and selecting his own paddock instead. It is no less astonishing to find a man asking the meeting to. adopt this petition. Mr G. Harper, with true terrier' instinct, worried this document as a terrier would a rat, and held it up to ridicule and con- . tempt. Mr H. Roche next attacked Mr W? Sloane, chairman of the Rangiriri Highway district, to know what authority he had to apply to the Premier for fifteen acres" of the Te Awamutu reserve for a public park without consulting him on the matter., Mr Sloane .explained that a publio park was a ihost essential requirement, and if Mr Roche did not' wish to have it others did, and the rising generation certainly would, as Te Awamutu was bound to be the centre of a large population. He considered it the greatest gift that could be obtai»ed for the district. —l am, &c, A Chiel. that Taxes Notes. Te Awamutu, Feb. 14,1878.