THE HAMILTON LAKE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, Why all the fuss about the Hamilton Lake disappearing? Would it not be a good thing if it (lid? Many rave about its beauty, but is it such a beautiful thing? I see little beauty in a swamp, and that is what the lake practically is. If it could be drained—and 1 believe it could be for about the cost that it will take to remove the weeds —it could in a few months be converted into pretty little homesteads and turned to profitable account. We get a surfeit these days about beauty spots; let us turn our attention to the utilitarian- —I am, etc., SPOT CASH. Hamilton, Jan. 18.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —“New Arrival” is plucky in making such comment# as he did regarding the Hamilton Lake, and probably he will be condemned for speaking in such a strain. We know Ih e truth is not always palatable, especially when it is bluntly stated. At the same time, 1 am riot sure that there is not, a lot of common sense in your correspondent’s suggestion, and 1 would like to see the matter fully gone into before public money is frittered away on what after all is in some respects an eyesore and bids to become even more so.—l am, etc., UTILITY.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17614, 19 January 1929, Page 9
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