CORRESPONDENCE.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 186, 7 February 1913, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(Out correspondents opinions arc their own; Hie responsibility of editorial items makes sufficient ballast for the editor's shoulders, ft is necessary that all letters for publication should bear the name of the writer—not necessarily fOl publication, but as evidence of good fnith.l

PUZZLED—Your letter is not of pubiic interest. If directed to the proper authorities it would, at least, receive consideration and at the same time may possibly do some good. —ED. W.P. TO THE EDITOR.

I SIR, —Will you allow me a ' little space in your paper to point out to the parents of the Kihikihi school children that the annual school picnic has been held in the local domain so many years that a change would be welcomed by a majority of .school children. As the parents and public subscribe to the funds of said picnic, they should have a-voice in the matter. Why not

petition the school committee to take the children to a fresh picnic ground, and also to provide suitable prizes with the money subscribed instead of giving them such things as. tinned fish, boxes of figs, etc., which are forgotten as soon as they have disappeared, if, indeed, they are allowed to be eaten at all ? Children like something they can keep as mementos of' the occasion. When they see the prizes the Te Awamutu children can boast of it makes them envious. lam given to understand that one year the sum of £27 was collected, so, for the number of children in the school, they should have a day they would remember. I hope some abler pen than mine will take this matter up and point out to the people of Kihikihi their duty to the children, and all join in the comittee's and teachers' efforts to make the "children's day" a success.— I am, etc.,

Parent to the editor.

SIR,—In your last issue there appeared a paragraph calling the Inspector's attention to the beautiful crops of ragwort and Canadian thistle now in full bloom on the banks of the Puniu river. I am pleased to inform you that the inspector is dead. Kindly notify my friends through the medium of your paper.—l am, etc.,

Blackberry Rabbit. [The alleged untimely decease of the Inspector is indeed a matter for regret, as his mission in life—so far as the Native lands

adjoining this district are concerned, is indeed an important one. His obituary notice, couched in the above "I am

pleased to inform" tones and heralded joyfully to all and

sundry savours somewhat of the much hackneyed, " Oh let us be joyful, ma-in-!aw's dead" —or is it that "Blackberry Rabbitls one of those offenders who heap trouble on to the inspector. It is all too true that thousands of acres of valuable land—locked up for settlement purposes serves only as a breeding ground for such noxious weeds and pests

as are a constant menace to the neighbouring settler, whilst the Maori owner stands by totally regardless of the consequences. Compulsory action in such instances seems to be the only course open, but, from what we can learn, the local inspector has been temporarily transferred, so that the chances for

immediate compulsion would seem to be remote. Genuine settlers who wantonly permit the growth of noxious weeds are fortunately few and far between in this district. —EDW.P.]