MR CAMPBELL AT ALEXANDRA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2365, 6 September 1887, Page 3

MR CAMPBELL AT ALEXANDRA.

Siii,— I have not hud the pleasure of seeing your issue of the 23rd hist, until this morning, or else I should have corrected your Alexandra correspondent’s misstatements sooner. I trust therefore you will permit mo now to refer to sumo of tho more glaring of them. Ho says, I would not retrench greatly on tho education vote. Sir, I think the items I referred to as desirable —viz., tho abolition of the boards, raising the school age in towns to six or seven years, and leaving all education above the -Ith dr oth standard, as also night schools, to bo paid for by those who sought their benefit —would effect a very largo retrenchment in that department. Ho also says that I approve of Mr Rallanco’s land scheme. No one ever heard me say so. I invariably said I do not approve of it. Again, he says that I expressed myself as unfavourable to Mr Yaile’s Railway Reform Scheme. That is, if possible, further from the truth than the other. Ho should have said, he highly approves of Mr Yaile’s Railway Reform Scheme, and holds that it should have a fair trial under Mr Valle’s own management. Various other statements your correspondent makes, until lie reaches his climax, in accusing mo of “Inconsistency,” which, as anyone can sec, is done with the evident intention of prejudicing my candidature. Rut let me assure him, as well as all who have written in the same strain, that tho electors are quite capable of fathoming tho secret of their manifest opposition, and, further, that they are doing the cause they have espoused no good, as I shall adopt measures to put myself right with the electors, —I am, &c., Thos. CaMI'PKIX.