"CALUMNY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 43, 20 February 1935, Page 18

"CALUMNY."

MR. GROUNDS' COMPLAINT. "A WHISPERING CAMPAIGN." (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANGAREI, Tuesday. "The Prince of Pollution has been at work with a whispering campaign of calumny," said Mr. W. Grounds, member for No. 1 ward on the Dairy Board, when speaking to a meeting of 260 { farmers a.t Whangarei yesterday.; "Opposing interests have been unable to shake the public confidence in the stand I have taken in recent affairs, or upset the simplicity and candour with which I have presented my ideas. "A section have taken upon themselves* to reply with calumny, and have noised it abroad that I have been in receipt of payments for this, that and the other. To such utterances I give the lie direct. I ask friends to supply me with any specific instances of the uttering of such canards in order that I may give those responsible the opportunity of substantiating their remarks. "I was brought up in a school which believed that a part of every man's life and effort belonged to the public, and that, if such assistance was with- j held, the people were being robbed of their distinct right. I rely upon my j friends to protect the public from being degraded by these subterranean methods, which I can only describe as low blacki guardism."