CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9976, 13 November 1895, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

TAXATION OF LAND. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l am owner of a farm in tho South which is leased at an annual rental of £52. I am charged £2 Is 2d under the laud tax, and at the same time a friend in Auckland whose rent roll amounts to upwards of £220 per annum, is only required to pay £1 53 under the same enlightened impost. As I cannot understand, much less appreciate, the peculiarities of semi-Socialistic legislation, 1 nave decided to sell my property. My farm was purchased with my own earnings and improved with my own labour, but such procedure is, according to the present Ministry, sinful, and those who indulge in such wickedness are social pests.—l am, eto. Francis Dom.op.

CHARGES AT THE RACECOURSE. TO TUB EDITOR. Sir,— wish to claim with your kind permission a small portion of your valuable space, in the righting of what myself and many others consider an injustice in the conduct of affairs at the racecourse. t In company with a friend, on the9th of this month, I drove to the course, and having paid the 5s admittance, proceeded to a quiet spot to tie my horses up, being provided with the appliances necessary for so doing. I considered that the payment of the admission fee entitled us to this privilege, and preferred to keep my horses by themselves, However, I was accosted by an officer of the club, who informed me that I could not tie my horses in any portion of the enclosure without the further payment of two shillings. This I was obliged to do, or leare my animals standing in the trap during the day. Does not this look like an extortionate charge? Surely the five shillings gate-money should be sufficient; posts and rails are certainly cheap enough, and the least the club might do would be to make fairer arrangements for their patrons, the sporting public. I would suggest that the Racing Club should place rails at different quiet and sheltered spots on the grounds, where horses might be tied up free of charge, after having paid so liberal a fee for admission. The club would thus be relieved of the charge frequently made of making unfair and exorbitant charges, and much complaint and dissatisfaction to the lovers of sport would be dono away with.— I am, etc., A Visitor, Auckland, November 12.

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED. " Anti-Humbug," writes Permit me, in reply to Mr. J. Regan, to state that, no more than he and bis colleagues am I in favour of this colony being made the dump-ing-ground for the refuse and cast-off of other countries, Chinamen, Asiatics, etc. _ I merely wished to show that _ tho social diseases by which our race in this colony are afflicted, are not caused by tho presence of a few Asiatics in our midst, as the Trades and Labour Councils, by* their pronouncements and resolutions would have us believe; and if the Trades and Labour Couucil think proper to trumpet forth their appreciation of the efforts of the Minister of Labour in formulating an Act whioh is quite on- a par with Mr. W. Buckland's Washers and Manglers' Act of last Parliament, then, Sir, I consider that I and those of the samo opinion have an equal right to express our approval of the action of the Legislative Council in rejecting the measure.

" Anglican"' sends an answer to the letter of Mr. J. H. Wright, opposing the removal of the Anglican Church at Pukekqhe. "Anglican" says that 47 families of the Anglican persuasion are in favour of the removal. Tho project has the sanction of the Bishop. The village has become more centralised in the neighbourhood of the railway station.' He concludes" I would ask Mr. Wright), to act in the best'interests of, the Church, as becomes his position of churchwarden, and once the removal becomes a fact we shall soon boast of more than half-a-dozen families attending our church."