"Wanganui" Sept.14/72 Dear Sir, My Cousins visit to Wellington on the Peyman V Whitmore Committee of Enquiry - gives me an opportunity of writing privately upon affairs here and with the additional advantage of affording you an excellent chance of obtaining throughly trustworthy information from a throughly reliable source - I know that he sees things pretty much as I see them, and if for some time since I have wholly refrained from expressing any opinion or taking any particularly active steps in any definite direction, it has arisen from a scarcely represible feeling of intense annoyance at the position in which I find myself placed from the miserable paltry intrigues going on around me - Ever since I accepted employment here it has been the same story, and for my own part I could have perhaps endured it with some show of Pateince where my own Interests alone were concerned, but it has spread a great deal further, and more harmfully, so much so that I am almost tempted to speak out and tell you plainly what I mean - I shall not do this wholly unless you ask me, and at present I do not wish you should - I must however say this much That as I did not seek my present employment so was I better off and likely to have continued better off by following my own professional avocations in Hawkes Bay - Ergo I did