CAMBRIDGE WEST AFFAIRS.

Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 326, 19 January 1907, Page 5

CAMBRIDGE WEST AFFAIRS.

TO THE EDITOR. SIR ~Will you please grant me space f° r & lff Imcs respecting the all-import-ant topic of a town district for Cambridge West. Hearty opposition is good in any cause if facts and principle predominate, but when neither and pure ignorance of the subject you oppose is displayed, then it is humiliating in the extreme. However anyTparty could be so foolish to call a public meeting to display such smallness of mind, as was done on Wednesday evening, is simply amazing in a country where the majority of people are educated in some degree. The only point of , difference between the two parties seemingly is this. The Pukekura Road Board collect the rates in the township. At present, one member lives in the township and four outside. If a town district is formed, the members will all be in the township with the same cash, roads, etc. They cannot manage and make ends meet. So you will see it is men, and not principle, in this difference after all. The opposition manifested at Wednesday night’s meeting of householders was an insult on the intelligence of the residents of Cambridge West. The opposition’s action is tantamount to saying “I am not intelligent enough to rule, nor is anyone else,” The attitude of the eleven persons who voted that the petition be .annulled reminds me of the saying, “The ass be brayed and made a noise, and other asses followed behind.”—l am, etc., Onlooker.