LIBERAL MR NAPIE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1902, Page 2

LIBERAL MR NAPIE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l was out of town at Waikato- and was unable. to attend Mr Napier's address.. I wanted especially to ask him about that Admiralty House, because I have heard say he was the prime mover in this useless expenditure. From one side the building looks like a fort with.holes for the big guns, from another side like a convent, and from another side like a palatial edifice built after the Maori fashion. After this costly building is finished, furnished, and the grounds made, many thousands of pounds will have been spent: and what is all this public expenditure for —to house the Admiral of. the fleet? and the Admiral will be in Auckland once in five years. Surely, Mr EHitor, this public expenditure could have been put to much better' use. We workingmen put-Mr Napier in on the Liberal ticket, and he is showing, himself liberal, but. not 3'or us. Another thing, Mr Editor, was not Mr Napier one of the members of the last Parliament that voted Government men in reeerpt of £10 or £12 a week anotiier £50 a year?_ Yes, workingmen, Mr Napier is a Liberal, no doubt, but when is he going to vote us workers—the manual labour gang—an extra £50 a year? Some of us will» want to know a little more before next election.—l am, etc.,

W. ■ GEORGE-PLUMMER.