CORRESPONDENCE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2102, 30 January 1908, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE

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A MINISTER’S IIALF-TRUTII

[To the Editor.]

Sir.—J notice that the New Zealand Times quotes a paragraph from your paper with reference to a .statement made by the Hon. Air MbNab on the subject of Land ilioa.nl Elections. Mr McNab is reported to li ivo said: “Tho first Land Board election was at Nelson, where they re-elected the Government nominee, and similar confidence in the former Government appointments is being shown in other places.”

It did not occur to the Minister to state that the only other election that had been held at the time of his remarks was kbit in Marlborough, where the candidate at the top of the poll is a bitter opponent of the Government (having been an Opposition candidate at the elections of 1902 and 1905) and was a few years ago removed bv the Government from his position as a member of the Laud Board on account of iiis opposition. Straws show how the wind blows, and the Crown tenants of Marlborough don’t intend to make any mistake at the next election for M.H.R. 1 am, etc., MARLBOROUGLI CROWN 'TENANT

A CRY EKOM SUNDERLAND

(To tlio Editor.)

Sir.—By a. mail a week ago, 1 received “The London Weekly Dispatch” in which was a pathetic appeal with regard to some 30,000 men with families who wore absolutely starving in Sunderland, Durham and tho details of the misery existing made ones blood turn cold. It struck mo that it woufd bo a. good opportunity for New Zealand to come to tho rescue by assisting as many as possible out hero as by the Mayor of Sunderland's appeal these men aro not loafers but as a result of the unfortunato financial crisis in America, the majority of tho shipyards have closed down' owing to scarcity-of orders for shipbuilding. lat once communicated with Sir Joseph Ward and lie has wired me “that lie lias received- tho newspaper and will loo'k into tho matter.”—l am, etc., CHARLES GOWLAND. Gisborne, January 27.