ADVICE TO OPUNAKE TOWN BOARD.

Opunake Times, Volume III, Issue 120, 27 August 1895, Page 3

ADVICE TO OPUNAKE TOWN BOARD.

(to the editor.) Sir,—Not being the legal adviser of the above Board, but " one that's- in the know," I just want to impress oh tbat august body to let the Trustee alone, as he is a bit of a naturalist and "a transformist. He has been reading the transformation dodge of converting wheat from oats, as he is going to plant black Maoris, and when the} grow up will cut their heads off a couple of times a year, so in the end they will shoot out white heads, and the new white breeds will have web feet, and will require no roads—a boon to the race. The first experiment of putting his hand down the native throats (not pockets) aud turning them inside out failed, as the potato and shark stuffing discolored the inside skin, so the former is considered by all red tapists to be the easiest way to solve the difficulty. Now, Mr Town Board, do you not think that yourselves and the country in general should have a voice in electing a trustee ; and I can see by his letter to you he is a bit afraid such is the case, though he has not asked me my legal opinion. If he does, between you and me, I will tell him what the famous Yankee lawyer advised a client: Cut and run while there is time, or be kicked out. A woman's first-born is, they say, never forgotten, but when a man cannot get a full meal for his stomach—his middle-born—through bad roads, then there is sure to be a row. Don't be hard on the Trustee, as he has a nice lucrative business, and,- of course, will fight hard to hold it. Would not some of you like to try his transformation dodge, and convert smoking little nigger girls into web-footed white girls ? and would I not grow a fortyacre paddock of them, and go out every morning to see the dears—that is, if the old womau did not see me. The Trustee hits you, old fellows, about Elwin, the League and Co. The Co. is bigger and mightier than he ga,mmons to believe. It embraces three parts of the white and native race on your coast, and the reason hundreds did not go in for new leases was on account of having their sections mortgaged, as you had to hand the leases into his honor, which the mortgagees would not surrender. If the Trustee likes to take a poll of the natives and whites under his management on this coast, I will forfeit £lO towards the Opunake Harbor if three parts are not against him.—J am, &c, Old Adam.