CORRESPONDENCE.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 37, 22 August 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(Out correspondents’ opinions are their own; the responsibility of editorial items makes sufficient ballast for the editor's should ders. It is necessary that all letters for pub- ' lication should bear the name of the writer — not necessarily foi publication, but as evidence of good faith.) . (T.Q THE EDITOR.) SIR, much surprised recently on reading in your issue of the 15th. inst. under the heading “Band of Hope Meeting and Temperance Lecture ” that the Rev. Chairman apologised for my absece from the meeting. He is reported in the POST to have used the following words : “ He apologised for the absence of Rev. . ..

and Rev. Father Lynch, who was absent from the district, but expressed his sympathies with the objects of the meeting." I desire to state, that I have never attended a Band of Hope meeting, nor asked any one to apologise for my absence. Neither have I ever expressed sympathy with the cause of no-

license, having always voted with of the * community who do not consider that no-license is the solution of. the abuse of intoxicating liquors. I do not attribute wilful misrepresentation to any one concerned, but a mistake has been made which I wish to correct by inserting these few lines in the' POST and oblige. —I am, etc., T. P. LYNCH.

The Presbytery, Kihikihi, August 18. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —The old story of one donkey nullifying the efforts of ten good honest horses struggling on a steep up-grade is an ever-recur-ring experience in all forward movements or reforms. Will this the case at the water supply meeting to-morrow night ? That the " donkey " will be present in the garb of the wiseacre is certain, and it is equally certain that unless the advocates of this very necessary innovation are prepared with their case, and put it as it should and can be represented, then the " donkey " will win. It is so much easier to destroy than construct. "Dulcie," in your last issue, speaking for her sex, refers to " the worries and anxieties of a fast-diminish-ing tank supply of stale water." This is an aspect of the case (the woman's aspect) which may be overlooked, but it is one de_«6erving of close consideration, and if the propounders of the proposed scheme are alive to their own interests, thev will see to it that the fair sex is well represented at the public meeting to-morrow night. Roll up, girls, and frighten to shame that fellow who in his blindness fears that bogey, "increased taxation," and who will add to your domestic worries in his silly shortsighted selfishness. —I am, etc., Town Pump.