TE AWAMUTU WATER SUPPLY.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 243, 2 September 1913, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU WATER SUPPLY.

TENDERS FOR PIPES

No small amount of inconvenience has been experienced by the Te Awamutu Town Board through the action of Messrs Briscoe and Co. in withdrawing their tender for the supply of pipes in connection with the Te Awamutu water supply. This has necessitated several meetings of the Board, and as tenderers had been advised of the acceptance of Messrs Briscoe and Co.’s tender it practically meant the re-open-ing of the whole question. The Board’s meetings have been in committee, but so far as can be ascertained the next lowest tender (that of Messrs Wingate and Co. —£13,425) has been accepted. This price is £906 in advance of the tender originally accepted. The deposit (£SO) of the withdrawn tender- will be forfeited. The necessary contract papers are now being prepared by the Board’s legal officer, and will be completed as soon as possible. It is anticipated that the pipes will be delivered at Te Awamutu early in December. The engineer (Mr H. Munro Wilson) will proceed with the construction of the headworks \ within.the next two weeks.

u m n s he as a champion of that attribute of all churches — cerity. It would have been had he held his peace o!-G : ; matter of dancing after socials. We sinners who, since before the close of Sunday school days, found it im-!| possible to claim any church, had hoped this gentleman’s advent would have helped 3 back to b some little of our chile; >oJ’s respect for the church and cloth. But, alas ! Where is the church’s sincerity or honesty when she stands by and allows one of her own gatherings to drift into an after-rneeting of which she will not approve ? Sincerity, like honesty, knows no middle course., Why, a' she does not approve, does the church not turn the key in..the hi.-,"; at the close of the authorised .proceedings, and so prevent the drilling into this • atterniath of sin and wickedness^T Why ? I'he answer is easy. The, church, with the wisdom of the* - serpent, knows that to forbid l this “aftermath of sin -and wickedness ” would be to spoil the earlier, authorised proceedings, and so—still with the wisdom of the serpent —she trims and wriggles and winks the other eye in skulking cowardice, and then—oh, the humour of it! —wonders why few manly men go to church. what sorry pass has the churcl™ come when she dares not openlj! and boldly forbid that of which! she disapproves, or permits tha! which she has not the grit or siti-! cerity to forbid. I am sorry —very! sorry- —for I, with other sinners! who want to be men, had hoped! for better things with the advent! of the new,parson. I somehow! think it’s the exigencies of the! job and its atmosphere rather ■ than the man that is at fault. 1,1 sincerely hopeso. Time,however, • ] will tell. My card (enclosed) is '.I at the reverend gentleman’s dis- I posal should he desire it. —I am, A Scot. M TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—In reply to the, Rev! D. J. A. Shaw’s letter, it is not! my intention to enter to a troversy re the merits or de-J merits of dancing in connection ! with the church. In . claiming! "the Indulgence of your paperng! wish to * ter my protest agaii«H| a certain po-ibm of , the r-BM gentleman’s ktwr as- publisjiH!

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who expected, in view had taken place once before, etc. I must therefore infer that such a quotation is a direct attack upon my predecessor or upon myself ? There, is subtle feeling underlying that statement, and I, for for one, would kindly take it as a favour.if Mr Shaw would either qualify or withdraw the statement he has published in his letter. Further, I think that he should inform the Kihikihi congregation from what source he gained his information. Before going to the press, would it not have been better, in the interest of the church, to have approached me upon the matter and given me the right to reply to my detractors and deny their extravagant assertions ? I flatly contradict the rev. gentleman and those associated with him in this .matter, and have given a personal denial to Mr Shaw. Never to my knowledge or that of rfly pre-j decessor have we been such an offence. In all public nection .with the !?>"r mutual consent, tary has have yet to usurped his, positionVgßßißH 'party to such an casion has any minis!HHßH| any money in the as a donation from a trust the rev. gentleman, i^|. he has the facts laid bareH||||| publicly, through the press, draw the assertion he has Thanking you in I am, etc., , ? O. Price Owen.