CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8100, 1 October 1904, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

STATE FIRE INSURANCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— l not* a paragraph in your issue of yesterday to the eifect that the result o the institution oi State Fire Insurance would induce foreign ™™Wf\£ "J" from New Zealand, and that the Otago Sauy lime, stated ti», Korth German K« e Insurance Company, is in ooMequenca retiring from business in Hew Zealand, •i'hia company retired from b™™ 8 * m New Zealand 'turn years before the question of State Fire Insurance was dealt with by Parliament. I may say, by th* ¥ wiy, that pronts will be better in the hSds of New Zealauderi than in, those if shareholders of foreign companies.-l am. etc.

' C. E. MAJOR. IThe paragraph stated that it was said in the iiouw that aoouid-so would hapi We did not iii*J» the statcmeut.-

WEBi COAST PRODUCE EXCHAXQE.

(To the JSditor.) Sir,— Your correspondent, M* J3. p« on » hw 'drawn a most erroneous deduction horn my letter concerning .the meat of the above exchange.. In his Semes* and impetuosity f. WjW«Mj Robbing' "deeds of derring-do" he hopes LrhVps to Xrtise the latter gentleman SrflWor and Mr Bobbins have httle Sdm S the honor of founding the exSrant it i» »Wy Am to the one man, MrThn Holmes/ Mr Major, by reason 3 his position v member for the dis£J i dST wtot he could to forward the bTiiect and M> Bobbins, by virtue of h» SfflcVas sKy«r, did likewiw. . They couW «nt willdo otherwise; »v» for their SESn can by™ «tartfcjty. ot *«•«"■•; natter to m dormant, for tnr«» year*, SSionl" performed an «i*nfciatty May- . A MEED TO MERIT.