Readers Write...

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 4

Readers Write...

I must confess that it is only now that I have taken real interest in the question of Weaver’s property as essential to the THE WEAVER provision of playPROPERTY ing fields or open spaces in Whangarei in the days to come. I am satisfied that you are absolutely right in your advocacy of securing this land and of bringing the matter directly before the Government before it is too late to retrace steps already taken by the Housing DepartIment.

This is a matter of greater importjance to Whangarei than is the admittedly important Waipoua Forest question, and I am astonished that local men should be forgetting the near-at-hand threat to destroy a local heritage in their desire to save an admittedly national heritage, which, however, cannot be lost as soon as the Weaver property will be if the same energy that is being put into the Waipoua controversy is not shown by the leaders of Whangarei. There ia no time to be lost. If local leaders do not bestir themsely/s they will earn the displeasure of future generations.—‘’WHANGAßEl CITIZEN.”