A FOOLISH PROPOSAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7958, 20 April 1904, Page 3

A FOOLISH PROPOSAL.

(To the Editor.)

'Sis,—Will you grant me a small space to.Bay a few words about what I read this morning about Mr W. T. Wood auggesting to Sir Joseph Ward that the new Post Office should be «ected in the Palmerston Square. Now, to my mind, that iB a very foolish step for Mr Wood to take, for this reason: The Government has got plans prepared for a Post Office to be erected on a corner section, with two very handsome front elevations with a tower on the oorner. The people of Palinerston have been waiting about five years for a new Post Office, and it seemed that wo should get it at no distant date. Now, if this new site is not knocked on tho head, and at once, the whole thing will be shelved again by the Groverament, and there will be no new Post Office for two or three years again, as new plans would have to be prepared for a building to be erected where Mr Wood has suggested. I trust the people of Palrnerston North will raise their •voice and say, "No, we will not have any building erected in the Square, not for all time."-—I am, etc.,

William Adams,

[Undoubtedly Mr "Wood has put his foot in it. No better means could be devised of arousing aontroversy and potting the project back thsin to get up Another site wrangle We invoke Mr Wood for goodness' sake to let sleeping dogß lie t—Ed. M.D.T.]