Correspondence.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1109, 3 October 1904, Page 2

Correspondence.

THE FOOTBALL CLUBS TO TUB KDITOH, Sik,—ln reference to Mr Sheen's latter to the Council re- tho application (or the Recreation reserve, I would like to refer to ft few items in his letter Mr Sheen makes a statement that Rugby is the national game of the colony. This 1 do not for one moment dispute. Ho also states that tho proportion between the two games, Rugby ami Association, is 20 to 1 in Waihi. This I fail to sr.c, as our membership for Waihi is ovor seventy members, and wo can pi ice in the Hold next season three senior teams (at tho least), He also stales that it would bo impossible to play both games, Rugby nud Association, on tho one day on account of tho releree's whisllo confusing tho players of both teams. Now, how do thoy overcome the difficulty when tho senior and junior Rugby teams aro playing on tlio same day? Regarding .the gato moiioy difficulty, our application to the Council will explain the view we took on that subject, which we thought was very reasonable. Tho Waihi Australian footballers do not consider {lint tho Rugby Union wishes to hold any hostile feeling towards them in any way; but at the same time think mat Hi Sheen mado ut slight slip in stating that on two occasions thoy (tho Rugby Union) postponed iixturos to make way for us. On one occasion they did so, and the Australians were very thankful for their liberality.—Thanking you, Mr, Editor, for trespassing on your valuable space, I am, etc,

W. 'L'ORNKR, President Waihi Australian Football Club. Tho follov/ing is our application to the Council, which through some mistake did not appear in print :

"To His Worship the Mayor and Councillors, Waihi.—Sirs, —Re application for (one) ground on your recreation rcsorve, we have met tho Rugby Union in confcronco, as you suggested, and havo failod to como to a satisfactory settlement. Thoy wished us to lmvo tho use of tho grounds one Saturday in five, which wo thought was very unliir. Wo suggostod that wo have ono grounl, nivlwhon not playing on same, to offer the uso of samo to the Rugby Union, Wo also suggested that we tako.2") per cent, of the gate and allow the Rugby Union end Council tho remaining 75 per cent, Wo may slito that our membership roll hero in Waihi is ovor 70, and most of (ho members aro desirous of playing should they procure a ground to play on. Noxt season wo would bo able to place three senior teams in the field should wo bo successful in procuring a ground. II not successful wo will havo about 70 players debarred from taking part next aous.ou in their sport,

THE WAIUI LIBRARY, TO TIIK KIIITOtI, Sin, —As n niulesnbseriber to the above, I cravo a voice on what seems to bo tho dillioult task of appointing a librarian. Tho question seems one of malo versus female, or, rather, two feinnlos versus 0110 malo, in which Mr Foster outers his tapu a»ninst tho female from a barmaid poiot- of view ; and though I do not agreo with Mi Foster's ptediction, I am compelled to support his demand for a malo attendant. Surely Waihi, with even perhaps moro of 'lie larrikin element than Mr Fostor is so scared of, is not so degenerate 1 Lint a femalo in clmvnc of mi institution iu the centre of Iho town need linvo any apprehension of moloslation or insult. My own conclusion 011 this dolicato anil endless question is Hint Ihere is not in (very lon thousand men ono had enough not to lot n good woman alone; hut good men will not leave a bad woman alone. My objection i 9 founded 011 tho fact that I liavo been a froquoulor of librariei iu tlio Commonwealth and Now Zealand, and tho opinion I have formed is that tho malo ought tobe approved ol before the female. By far tho finest counti') library in Australasia, namely, tho Qiblin Library, Devonport (Trb*

mania), was totally destroyed by lire, ft loss that would havo boon evened if there had boon a uialo instead o( a fomale.—l am, etc., Subscriber. THE MINERS' UNION TO THE KDITOR Sir,—Some timo ago a letter nppoitrcil in your papor from Mr Thomas Mooney, the late secretary of the Waihi Minors' Union, insinuating that the affairs of the union aro not as tbey should be. I n.n pleased to soo tho committee of managers of tho said union havo hud tho good sense to treat his remarks with silent contempt, as any one can sco that tho union is in a more prosporous condition than it was during Mr Moonoy's term of oflioo. —I am, ote., Consistency,