Lake County Council. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 27

Lake County Council. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — I see your Lake correspondent has taken notice of my letter of the 9th ult after having his attention drawn to it, otherwise he says he had no intention of combating my statements. He commences his reply by saying that he has looked up his files of papers, and found that foi the last seven months there has not been a single meeting of Lake County Council but that Mr Fraser was appealed to for advice or assistance of some kind or other. Surely after so much trouble in looking up back files he should be able to give more than a bare repetition of his former assertions by releasing the subject matter locked up in those files, but files are stubborn things when required to combat facts. However, I refer " your owii " to my letter again, and if he is not tinted with colour blindness

or we&ring the Eraser spectacles, he -will See at a glance that he has not even touched the subject of my letter, which subject wa3 very prominent at the last council meeting. I am pleased to see in the last paragraph of his leltter .that Mr Fraset is making himself more conversant with the requirements of the districts he repiesents, which, no doubt, have been sadly neglected during the last five years.— l am, etc., W. H. ANDERSON. Macetown, April 5, 1899.