SEPARATION.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2157, 2 December 1875, Page 3

SEPARATION.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Silt, —In your issue of the Ist a letter appears signed "Traveller," asking are we to have real, substantial, local selfgovernment. As I want to know how to get that, with your permission, for the sake of brevity, I will put the following questions to " Traveller " or any other:— Could ,we be worse governed were we separated from the South than we now are; or, in other words, would the electors have any more power over their representatives with a seat of Government in Auckland than they now have ? Could Auckland be any worse, financially, with a separate gov< rnment than she.now is ? Would there be more chance of local self-government under two provinces or governments . than under one ? What, prospect 'is there, should : the present Ministry be returned, that Auckland will be any better governed than she now is ? Has the present government kept faith or otherwise since the Abolition Bill was passed ? Would Auckland be benefited by having the power to borrow and spend her own money as a separate province more than by having to beg and pray to a Central Government for all she can get ? Would the Maories be better or worse governed from Auckland or the South? Would the Colony be as much united under two governments as under one; or, in other words, is it united now; if where, when, and in what?—l am, &c, Enquires.