CORRESPONDENCE. THE PROPOSED HALL FOR HAMILTON WEST.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1424, 18 August 1881, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE. THE PROPOSED HALL FOR HAMILTON WEST.

TO THE EDITOR. SIE, — Regarding the audacious actfQQ. of the Site Trustees advertising for tenders, opening same,, deliberating upon and aoaepting, were their action not so prejudicial to the interest of the Borough, the burgesses might serenely cmile al the incocted incubation, the incubus or^inculpation of which seems more like a monstrous hybrid mythoplasm the outcome of individuals possessing ordinary intelligence, Self-constituted asuraption of autocratio powers ought to be peremptorily and effectually extinguished, annihilated, obliterated. Once permit the small end of the ! wedge — even an infinitesimal insertion — with the sledge hammer in powerful and not oyer .scrupulous hands, picture the consequences Jn your own minds. Fellow burgesses, awake from your, lethargy and inertness, let your aroused energy scintillate before the visual organs of the ' presumptuous deipoiler; let them ace that ycju are in earnest, that there is nothing approaching sbioniaehy on your side. If v you| so comfort yourselves,- those incomprehensible, self-sufficient assuraptionists will recoil, and vanish, so that in future they will hesitate before' over-stepping their vested powers, and it will likely be unnecessary to administer farther inorepation.— l am, •£°-i v, ' -; ' ' . \QuiYjye. - + , .10 THE -EWTOR. - r , - Siß, r This Jiail ! wi|en the, breaW 'y%h! l ' ( ''eVeffsM K> . having,; the" interesfa' of the 'Bdroutiia^heart fondly imagined wajj , almpst^ -, bulged. ,pver, although we oannot^alyiwgeiner forget how Hamilton Eastj in_'the good old punt 4ays ; used to, n^u^t^r in <iur Cojarfchouqe, or. |ibfl ggiing-ro^on^^^e Qpnime|(^al, in. but they came ot 1fc ft? n,WwiJi lffl nd JKoreT%auae Jhey^^ "n^

Telegraph, and Post-office, R.M. Court, Borough Council Chambers, and Police Station. Of the latter, they have got a branch, but only for the reception of drunks, &c, overnight, to be fetched to head-quarters following day, and having all these, why should we have to go to the East for concerts, balls, theatricals, and other entertainments, when, with the help of Government and the Church, we can get a non-sectarian Public Hall of our own. Some people may say that after private enterprise supplying more than is required in this particular line, it is manifestly unfair for Government to subsidise an opposition institution ; but so long as we get never mind the why or wherefore ; if the section of the Borough or the residents thereof nearest the rising sun are dissatisfied, and they certainly appear inclined to be troublesome, let them take the necessary steps to have the Borough abolished. If they cannot manage it themselves, we will lend them for once a little assistance, and if we cannot keep on "boroughing" without them, do away with His Worship. Although sacrificing a considerable amount of dignity, and taking apparently a retrograde step, affairs could be conducted, as in days gone by, quite as efficiently and certainly more economically. Each side would haye the spending of its own revenue, and could build its own hall without consulting or having it objected to by the other. If this state of things were brought about a better state of feeling would soon be engendered. Of course little matters affecting both sides would from time to time be cropping up, requiring adjustment, for which purpose a standing committee could be appointed on each side, place of meeting centre, or widest part of the bridge. But it ia premature going into preliminaries or details. — lam, &c, A.B. Hamilton West, August 17, 1881.