HAVELOCK BATING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 3

HAVELOCK BATING.

(To the Editor*Sir,—l am, pleased that “Latest Ratepayer” considers my letter in tho issue of the sth inst. so illuminating, and 1 sincerely hope he has derived a little konwledge by reading it. 1 am afraid 1 cannot return the compliment, and, if 1 hadn’t been misquoted would not have replied to his letter. If my memory serves me right, 1 said, if Havelock was being grazed on, it would support one family, not that it “could only” support one family. Now for the fifty families just reckon up the sthool teachers, churches, post office, shops, garage, Town Board employees, and gardeners, etc., and 1 think I was well within the mark. All these people would hardly be needed if Havelock was only a grazing run. As for exterminating the farmer in the Town Board area, we would hardly like to do that. When anything gets so rare as the genuine farmer is in the Village, the museums start collecting and one sees the exhibit rara avis. If the Town Board would only put a stop to the grazing on the roads and footpaths in Havelock, 1 am very confident that quite a number of socalled farmers would have to shut up shop.—Yours, etc.,

STILL ANOTHER RATEPAYER Havelock N., 11/8/27.