"JIM THE RINGER" REPLIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1927, Page 6

"JIM THE RINGER" REPLIES.

(To the Editor.)' I ain't used to writing to tie vou must excuse me if I flounder i k?' * the matter of poetry, and the merits of and Paterson. and the argument of Mr vf* hill. He seems to be hedging now-*-is laying the odds against himself 4 " I can see. He says he didn't Well, if he didn't he called him a Aussie writer. That might be critiri^T" 1 * 1 * "Banjo" or it might not. iS low-brow like me to saw IW- ? , for * bloke whom Mr. Mulvih'ill goes crook ™ don t know the bloke from a bar of sra v it's up to him to defend Paterson if hTft-T it worth while. Perhaps he doesn't. Ta* The funny thin,, to ml is all Ss'ife over one line which Patersou's alWrftTv* ww,. -And bound br It might be poetry, ,f , 0 , it's got as meaning as a sermon: at least, from what r_ told, as Im not a churchman mvself lu - been born and bred in New South" anyhow,, from what I see, the better the the less a cove understands his writina, as Mr. M. says, there's no sense in itTit w.,5 be poetry. But what gets me narked i»SdS Mr. Mulvihill sajs that Lawson had " afflatus. Well, I don't know where k ™ his information from, but all I am „ that although I saw Harry frequentlv" iZ years—more than once a week, anyhoir-U never once complained of having divine I remember pretty nearly the last time I with him at a little school at the "Loo"- v! never said nothing about suffering from tw trouble, and X know 'well lie never from it. Mr. M. also said that Henry lacked tot&l nique. He might have, but he could poll Toar lug occasionally for half a iollar. While fta about it, I might as well put in a *ord j myself, being out of a job. I can Rata pieces from dozens of Aussie writers— not onlr Lawson and Paterson, but Cheeve Boe, Tftoi Salt. Edmund Fisher (the daddy of the lot) Brady and others, but I never 'get no to shine in Maoriland. If I don't get a joi soon (I'm a plumber's labourer by trade and can do a bit of shearing) Til do "a gnr to X.S.W., where a bloke who can month it 'like me is appreciated. JIM THE RIXGEB.