HAMILTON EAST AND WEST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2394, 12 November 1887, Page 2

HAMILTON EAST AND WEST.

TO THE KDITOK. Si if, —1 n answer to the clipping from the Auckland Star in your Thursday’s issue, J thoroughly agree with the first part, viz.. “That in the multitude of councillors there is not always wisdom,” for it is very certain that if there had been, a Hamilton councillor would not have written such an aitide to the Star. The question of the public baths, as looked at from a Hamilton Hast point of view, is this :—The baths were to be erected so ns to suit the convenience of the inhabitants on both sides of the river, but owing to the nnskilfulnes.s or stupidity of the engineer, the baths on the Hast side are utterly useless ; notwithstanding which the Hamilton West councillors, assisted by one from the Hast side, have been and still are endeavouring to enlarge the baths on the West side, utterly ignoring the requirements of Hamilton Last. This is being done apparently to provide a billet for a gentleman who is known in Hamilton as a professor of swimming. Why, Sir, in Hamilton East there is hardly a boy or girl over 10 years of age who cannot swim, and I could name dozens of both boys and girls who would give the swim-ming-master all his work to do to beat them. Rut leaving the question of the baths on one side, the last paragraph in the Star article deserves the most attention, in which it is stated that the only remedy for Hamilton West must be to cast Hamilton East adrift, and include within the Borough the valuable and rising town of LTaukton. This is the veriest bosh. Where is the town of Erankton ? 1 doubt if the whole of the rates would keep the Town Clerk in stationery. 3>ut speaking the opinions of many here, wo arc full up of the West side. Theie lias never been a question introduced in the council but the West side has tried to get the best of us. Hamilton Jkist was able to manage its own affairs before the creation of the Rornugh, and can easily do so again ; so if Hamilton West desires to cut the painter, we are quite ready and willing, and L am quite sure we could manage our own affairs without either the heavy expense or the bungling mismanagement so characteristic of the Borough.— Yours, &c., Hamilton’ East.