A PROTEST FROM GREAT BARRIER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 244, 12 October 1917, Page 6

A PROTEST FROM GREAT BARRIER.

(To the Editor! Sir,—ln your issue of the 22nd ult. there is an account of 11. R. Cray's appearance before the Kirst Auckland Board, and I can only say: "Thank God he is not a Great Barrier production, but a recent arrival.'' This little island is very loyal, and. although we have two, or three at most, of his cla«s here, they are newcomers every one. It is rather amusing to knowthat we arc a bit "queer from loneliness," and he says: "Ynu see the same people and faces perhaps for five years, and the people, get a bit funny." Well, to see the face of a man (?) like him once in ten years would be once too often on this little bit of the British Empire. Why does he stay heTe when he thinks the inhabitants ppt "queer from loneliness, . He is hardly likely to be immune. I think it showe a remarkable lack of brain power when a man has to fall back on a German (Karl Marx) for his line of thought and conduct. If I had the ordering of thinps I would sen that the likes of him were kept in the very front of the firing-line, with good men behind them to keep them up to the mark.—l am, etc., d. x. McMillan". Whangapara, Great Barrier Island, October 3, 1917. "A Barrier Resident," writing on the same subject, says:-—The Great Barrier is probably as well represented in Maorilanc's army as most other parte of the Dominion. With very few exceptions every island family has one or more representatives: some have sent as many aa four, and there are very few physically lit young men left, and most of those who have prone were volunteer*. In common fairness, theeo fact* should be published, so as to remove any fal.se impressions treated by Marx's disciple, who will find that if the Central Powers win their trades mid labour motto Willi !«■: "Where Germans arc available nu | alien need app'}-" I