THE GRAVEL QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR.
Sm, — Your coriespomlent, "Pair Play," m " tfacie Bleu " — which shall I call him ?—? — piofe>iOh fco J5OO "wheels within wheels " in this discussion of the Hood-htieet giavel question: Ho seems to lea\e tho public "mo.il" out of onsidoiatton altogether. His defence is about tho lamest that could bi' adv.uiced — viz., that two blacks make .i white ; th.it because a wrong thing b.vs been often done before it is not \vi ong to do it ag.un. Aflei 1 f.uv con of "Fair Play's " letter, it is iin]>o~-sible to come to other than one of two conclusions — via, that anyone who could allow tho borough to be hyhtematically cluiged a vaul and .i-quaitei' of gi.ivol for a tufle nndei e\e»y V.'ud supplied Mas cither mcoiupetent or untiustwoithy. In cither case, hticli an one 1^ not the man foi (Jalway. Advising " Fan Play ' not to lcplv, for it is evident, to use a homely but foiciblo ])ioveib, that the moie he stus the more he stinks, I shall now t\ke leave of the matter till after the committee's report is published. — 1 ant, etc., Krciv.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1762, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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187THE GRAVEL QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR. Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1762, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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