LETTERS CONDENSED.

Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 2

LETTERS CONDENSED.

“Quid Pro Quo” says that in his address to the electors at Opoho on Tuesday Air A. R. Barclay ventured the prediction that the Shite would one day issue a note as legal tender. Would Mr Barclay state if it is possible for the Dominion to own its own mint? and if so, would be favor buying (with these State notes) our export of gold and silver, minting our own coins, and eventually redeeming these i State notes with the profit accruing from i the silver coins? “ AVatc-hdog” wishes to inform his fel-low-ratepayers at the North-east Valiev that there are three classes of ratepayers who will vote against an efficient water supply, and it will require every vote of those who wish release from the “ dark j ago” conditions to counteract their influence. The above-mentioned ratepayers ! are those who, having a few more tanks than ! their neighbors, are content to drink therefrom, even when the water is un- ■ wholesome, rather than spend a few shillings ; those who have too little brain capacity to appreciate the proposals of men i who are better endowed; and those who . j think that scrubbing floors is superfluous 1 ' labor, and that a daily or even a weekly • bath is dangerous to health.