CORRESPONDENCE,

Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 26, 16 February 1912, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE,

Elections and Polling Placeß.

Daar Sir, —My main objtct in raplying to “ Dissatisfied's ” first latter wat, not to crack up Pukanui, but to endeavour to show that he had no (rounds for his complaints; this fact I am sura all ri|ht-minded readers af your valuable paper will ba compelled to admit. “ Dissatisfied Yet" is quite right in saying that Pukanui is included in the Houhora district, and se is Rio, but whilst Pukanui happens to have the Wharf, School, tnd Postoffice in close proximity, Rio is nothing but a tidal creek, with only the Hall, store and a “ Noah’s Ark” on which to base its claim to racognition. As regards the oft mentioned “ Big Hill,” It it a no mora prominent feature of the landscape than say a wart would be on the end of “ Mister Dissatisfied Yet’s ” note The fact still remains thst a big majority of the Houhora settlers’ residences are nearer to Pukanui than Rio, and I should also like to point out that the diggers located on Salvation Flat, mentioned in such cavalier terms by “ D.Y.” are mostly married men and will compare favorably, in every tense of the word, with even the exclusive though dissatisfied Rio set. The Rio people certainly have a “brats band” (mora power to them) but Pukanui hat Jack Evans and his accordion, and I can assure your readers it will be many years before the Band can hope to render at good time and muaic at Jack can get out of hit instrument. Wiat a glorious tima Teachers and School Committees will have when the present mnddlers are ejected from the Beard, and “ Mister Dissatisfied Yet ” is elected to the Chair. “ Re the other authorities, all I will say it it is politics, watch them next time.” So writes “D. Y.” and the words have given me the creeps, conjuring up visions of the villain, with upraised dagger advancing en hit victim with stealthy tread, whilst the thunders roar, the lightnings flash, and the elements generally are at war ; we shall have to take great precautions it we hope to come out of the ordeal alive, I am sorry my King’s English does not please “ D.Y.” My parents considered my education sufficiently advanced at the mature age of three, to warrant them taking me from school, and since that time I have not had the opportunity of studying such correct, though inane, effusions as D.Y’t. However 1 believe my English is good enough for readers to understand. I can assure “ D.Y.” that the Rio Hall does not trouble the Pukenui folk one jot. If they are so well satisfied that it has fulfilled all the conditions for which it was built why be “ Dissatisfied Yet ”T“ It is a good little hall with a grand floor, but the fact remains, it ts in the wrong spot. The Committee have one great consolation—it should last for ever, as it is to seldom used. The future of Pukenui is assured, as I hear on very good authority it is to be the terminus of the Main Trunk Railway, to be lit up by olectricity, the Big Hill tunnelled and a branch line run to Mr. W. H. Evans’ Hotel for the benefit or thirsty souls. To sum up, the Rio people have their hall, their band, their cricket ground, and their “ Noah’s Ark.” Surely they should be happy and satisfied, but I am afraid their champion “ D.Y.” is suffering from liver, and wish him a speedy recovery, or a happy ralease. Excuse this long epistle, but “ all the same the other feller ” I am fond of a bit of fun.— I am, etc., ’ Still Well Satisfied,