HAMILTON LOCAL OPTION POLL.

Waikato Times, Volume 2507, Issue XXXI, 4 August 1888, Page 3

HAMILTON LOCAL OPTION POLL.

TO THE EDITOR. Rill,— Observing in to-duy's issue of The Waikato Times Mint you find fault with the place appointed for the local option poll for the Hamilton Licensing District, will you allow me to point out that you appear to confound the Hamilton Road District and the licensing district of the same name. The licensing district includes the ridings of Hamilton and Tuhikaramea, and the polling place is situated at the junction of tho roads from Hamilton, Whatawhata and Tuhikaramea. Now, if vou consult a map, you will at once 9eo that the Tuhikaramea ratepayer might justly claim to havo the polling place still further from Hamilton rather than nearer to it. —I am, &c, N. T. Maunder. July 30th, 1888. TO THE EDITOR. that your motto " equal and exact justice, etc.," is your guide, I beg to explain matters a little, as to your remarks on the Local Option Poll at Hamilton. According to your account my «esidence must be an awful out-of-the-way place to get at ; but my house is one paddock from the County road, and a good road for a coach and four to my door. If people will mix themselves up in business that will not bear daylight, and grope about after dark, they may find a little mud : or perhaps they wore superstitious and got scared at the morepork ; but I must excuse some of their ire, their having the loosing side, no doubt, created a little bilo. I tell you plainly, sir, we want no pub at Frankton j an honest man could not get a living there, and we want no other. I would advise thorn to keep better council next time, and keep things morn secret. As to the polling place, I will not attempt to excuse the Returning Officer, as ha is well able to defend himself. —Yours etc., Thos. Maunder.