PUBLIC OPINION.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 June 1888, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

+ _ [Correspondence upon topics ol general interest in the district is invited, but we are not responsible for the opinions expressed.] THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE ADVOCATE. (To The Editor.) Sir,— l notice in the Saturday's issue of your paper that a resolution vyas passed at the last sitting of the County Council instructing the clerk .to ask tho Waipawa Mail and Woodville Examiner for their price of advertising the County notices during the coming year. It appears that the matter was brought before the meeting by an application from the BpsH Advocate to get a share of the advertisements from the County Council. I, and most others here iD Norsewood, think your request a reasonable and just one, and it is an insult to us all that your application should have been treated with the discourtesy of not even giving you the privilege of tendering. I miwt go even further, and ask if it is not against the interest of the ratepayers of this riding that advertisements of importance to us> should not be advertised in the only paper that can be called local. We never see the Woodville paper here, and as for the Waipawa Mail the subscribers taking it can easily be counted on the fingers of one hand.- I am, etc., J. Pettersen. Norsewood, 4th June, 1888.

Sin,— l would like to know where our representatives in the Council were at the last meeting, when they allowed the application of the Bush Advocate to be treated with contempt. lam informed that the said application only contained the very reasonable request of having a share of tho county advertising. It represents three of the principal ridings in the County, and I can certify that it has a larger local circulation than any other paper in the province. It is only fair that county advertisements of local interest should be inserted in it. To give such advertisements to papers we seldom or never see is simply waste of the ratepayers' money and a strong proof of very undesirable log-rolling. . W. Westlake. Ormondville, 6th June, 188 M.

Sic,— i was quite astonished to read your issue 01 Saturday last where you report the meeting of the Waipa wa County Council. In it it appears that the Woodville Examiner and the Waipawa Mail are the only papers asked to tender for the county advertising. Now, I have been informed on very good authority that what actually took place is $c. following ;

A resolution was proposed, seconded, and carried, that all the papers circu* lating in the County should be asked to tender for the year's advertising. After the Chairman had dissolved themeeting he was . accosted ' by the -Editor of the Waipawa Mail, and after a short consultation the clerk was instructed to invite tenders from the Examiner and Mail only. Mr Erickseni representing the Norsewood Riding, objected, and how the matter I ended I do not know, but I can pretty well guess by the result I see in the report. Now, I for one object to this log-rolling. We have as much ri^ht to get the advertisements pertaining to our ridings in the Advocate, as people in other ridings have to get those pertaining to their ridings in the local organ, and I for one object to the great injustice by which the claims of the Advocate, and the ratepayers, it represents, are ignored. Before the minutes of that last meeting are confirmed I expect the Bush members will raise their voices against this log-rolling and put the matter right.— l am, etc., F. Forward, Makotuku, sth June, 1888. ,