CORRESPONDENCE.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume II, Issue 54, 24 December 1892, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO TEE EDITOR Dear Gazette;—-I'have seen-and lveard a lot of tommy-rot about £9 that Shaw and McWilliams (lid.not receive, >but I would like:to ask: ■■ if-any. one had anything 1 to-say when in ' Cock's time Jim Maguire; and his 1 ittie boy received £3Q in hard cash for Thavin^ a; prospecting] picnic somewhere m the hilla not aj hundred mile's away from the "Gram-, pion :Hill," which he then owned. Ex-j cuse me being nasty, bat I oiily ask for the sake of 'I i Information. ;

TO THE EDITOR. i Sik,—Tour correspondent "Progress' has evidently endeavoured to strike the; happy medium in 'his remarks re the' proposed loan. All thinking observers will, with him, regret the tone of recrimination and thefioo'd. of personalities whicb^have been introduced in the dis-; cussion6fthis matter. 'Let thequestion be ' talked over quietly and calmly, having • regard only to the subject in ; band, and not. to the people vjio ..art? ; either in'favour or against it. Now, sir, beyond all doubt at would be

j greatly (6 the advabtags of the County |to obtain this loan.; secondly, if this is ■the'case why should it not be got:? .thirdly, if obtained, how should at be clistribotedf ■ : ■

With regard to the'first-'question, all:.' your readers will agree that the vote of. the community is almost unanimously >in favosr of obtaining 1 -a loan; on' 'the second query, it would- appear/ that, a . section of the community wish to postpone the-question of the loan until after ; another election for councillors. Thi^, sir, 1 venture to suggest is utterly ultra t'vires. .Jf the present representatives'of the people are unfitted to act as representatives: why were they elected:? If . their constituents have auy-fault: to'find .with them the remedy is easy. (Let the objectors call P, public meeting, and;: if such is*the will of the electors, pass :avote' of noh-cbiafiderice .in their .'representatives. But by all means let them shun, as they would-they would the pesty all "hole and corner work'," let them. * act openly and on the square, and 'thenj no matter how opinions may differ, they will earn the respect of every.honest elector.;' ■ :.-; ': ''■' ''-■■■' ■'"" '■•.■'■•' '■'■•' -'.'-

The third query concerns the allocation of ihc loan, if obtained. Hare, I have -little doubt, many of jour readers will,join issue with ".Progress." He-says ' the Paeroa, water scheme ha 3 been left out. So it has, and.quite right too. 'If Paeroa township wants a water show' let il raise a special loan for the 'works, and charge the users of the water a water-rate. Why should the whole County pay to supply the sculleries df the .fortunate dwellers in the village - •with water on tap? I note with-pleassre that you,- in your leader, agree with this view, in this connection, >I would like to ask, What would Paeroa bo if ifc were not for its back country ? and, What is that back country bat a gold-field? If there were no gold in Karangahake, Waihi, and Waitekauri, would ifc be worth the-while-of the Northern S.S. Co. to run a steamer to Paeroa? "Except; for the purposes of through traffic would there be a livery sfable in tho place.?— and, in fact, what makes that through traSc but that Paeroa >s a gold-fields centre?. Why has Paeroa just been made th& seat of n. Warden's Court but that it is a .goldfiolds centre ? What enables the store-keepers, the buttermakers, the steak-raisers, the blacksmiths, the saddlers, the carriers, and their kindred workers, to exist but the goldfields? Why, therefore, i,his absurd jealousy"? By all means sink it all, and look the matter fairly and squarely in the face, and judge of it by its merits. Do not, my fellow electors, allow the cat-harpings of pure biliousness to tempt you to.ijudge prejjadicately on this* all important subject. "^Progress" says that £4000 is too much or too little to spend on the main road through the 'County. Your note in your issue of the 47th.points' out how adequate is the allocation of £4000. There is no doubt about the fact; that the main road through the district, the artery in fr.ct, which conveys the life blood of tho country's traffic,.ought to be one which will commend itselfto the use 6f' those who bring money intotho place, and to .us who use the money when-it comeshere. Thus you see, sir, that, on no higher grounds than that of local selfishness, we must spend as much money as possible on that road. And if the balance of the Karangahake bridge subsidy, together »with the other items ■noted in your leader be yiidicioidly ■ expended, we shall have a road that .the 'County should be proud of. But .the ■money must be expended, as tf. .hare said—judiciously; This is a matter of technical detail. We have a County i Engineer, who will bo responsible for that technicality, and' to 'him we 'look for the result. ' ' I have already taken up too much of your space, ond am afraid to trespass any further in this issue, butiif anything I have written may lead to farther-ven-tilation, in a fair and equitable manner, of thevarious -views of the electors on this subject, I shall bs pleased, with your permission, to write \you again.— Yours, etc., • SITUNESo