GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6970, 9 November 1909, Page 6

GOVERNMENT HOUSE GROUNDS

(To tbo Editor " N.Z. Times.”) Sir,—lt is the general belief that at no time in the history of your publican tion has anythin" appeared more highly appreciated titan your remarks regarding tbo excluding of the public from the Government House grounds. The person in whose mind the idea, originated is worthy of the detestation of the public; and did I know him, and ho a friend who stood on. the highest pinnacle of my esteem, I should fling him thence to fall shattered on tho jagged base of my contempt. Do these parsons who have become members of Parliament entertain the idea that they aro in any way superior to the people who elected them ? Surely not! Have they become lost in the mephitic atmosphere of cojisequeutiality ? Or, are they befogged in endeavouring to discover under what condition of mind tho voters were who elected some of them? 1 think. Sir, -could it bo discovered who the originator of the suggestion was, it would be found that ho is a person of such caddish instincts that no fence would bo too high to afford him the seclusion wished for —a person who, likely enough, leaving a tawdry homo would create a temporary paradise for himself regardless of how much he deprived ihe people in doing so. Let me again say. Sir, that the public have to thank you for asserting that the spirit of freedom, is still abroad, and that, not even the assumption of dignity under tho tallest and glossiest beaver in Parliament will cause us to abandon out tittle of right to enter and enjoy whatever the delights the grounds of Government House afford.— X am, etc., J. LESLIE. Kilbirnie, November sth.