MR. HINE'S CANDIDATURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 3 November 1911, Page 2

M R. HINE'S CANDIDATURE.

the Editor “Stratford Tost.”)

Sir, —1 uobico iu hi outlay nignt s j “l/osi” a very reinarKuole poetical | contribution Horn one, i. Ciu-UUcil, j ami iUso a criticism of me aUmuiiSrratioa or rue so-called Opposition j wneiv m power ro railway moi s wages and oluer matters, urn-cli, wan j your very kmtl permission, I purpose t o bnony review. On nrst tuougnts 1 lor one, decided ro let it pass, oacaiise it is only typical oi us Kina, rxowevor, on swcsmioitgiib, 1 nave tlecicictl to put me true sale, for in order that anything may uo done use- I fully and proiitaoiy it must be done manfully. Pembroke itoad is noted tor us oeauty spots, ior its many fair-mindeil men and women, who i know are personal friends of my own, hut 1 was unaware that it contained one who in a partisan spirit could go so far. As regards railway work, i nave done as mucii as most men in my time. Landing in New Zealand in mo year 1870 as a young man fresh from" the Middlcsbro’ Ironworks, i readily obtained employment on that section of railway in course of construction from Eoxton to Bunnythorpe, helping to puli up the old wooden train rails and lay down the permanent way right through the job. I also helped to complete the Stratford section under Mr. Bassett's contract. Likewise the Mokoia section, better known as “Wilkie’s,’' carried out by Government control. Also tlie Hunterville section, and in every case the ruling wage was Ss per day ot eio-ht hours, and in some cases Js, with tho option of overtime. Anent the ruling rate of interest, every* sensible person knows, unless ho is a lunatic, that in the time of stress, the financial barometer is so sensible, and history repeats itself and the truth of the theory ir laid dow n by Mr. Normon Angel i his famous book, that nations a \ so interdependent in financial ai irs that war, or suspicion of war, would c,reate such loss, that even the conqueror could not gain. Personally, I am not concerned with the Mine charges. Mr. Mine believed ho had a public duty to perform, and rightly so. 1 hat duty Mr. Mine carried out right manfully, and at great inconvenience to .himself. I believe when bitterness and prejudice has passed away, so that men can see more clearly in tins bright land of ours, posterity will bring its own reward.—l am, etc., J. SMITH. Stratford, Ist November, 1911.