MR SAUNDERS' MISREPRESENTATIONS.
[By Sib J. Hall.]
Although I have ceased to engage in political strife, I have not ceased, and shall not cease, to reply, when it is worth my while, to misstatements respecting my past conduct. Therefore I trust you will allow mc, even at this busy time, to encumber your columns with a further reference to Mr Saunders' misrepresentation of my action in the matter of the taxation of improvements. In his first letter ha charged mc with preferring to exempt from taxation costly dwellings, <fee., in towns. Although this statement has been clearly disproved, and he does not repeat it in his second letter, he has not the grace to withdraw it. He now says that tbe carrying of Mr Shera's motion would have set his (Mr Saunders') motion aside. That may be, but he was not theoniy person who could move in the matter. Any old Parliamentary hand should know that additions could have been made to Mr Shera's motion, if carried, which, while exempting productive improvements, would have kept the land tax on expensive town dwellings. By helping to reject Mr Shera's motion, Mr Saunders helped to render such additions inadmissible, and to continue the tax on agricultural improvements. Then Mr Saunders i>peaka of my "flying to the resoue of the young champion." This is another specimen oi his accuracy—l never even mentioned Mr Reid's name—l simply replied to an attack upon myself. Mr Reid seems perfectly well able to fight his own battles, as his letters show.
Lastly, your correspondent writes of mc as the real leader of the Opposition. He might as well say I was the real leader of the Salvation Army. It is a pity that Mr Saunders cannot believe that it is ever possible for him to be in the wrong, and have the candour to admit that he has made a charge which ia not justifiable.
P.S. —I notice that at one of his meetings Mr Rolleston, without the slightest commouioat*on with mc, gives the same answer to Mr Saunders' letter as I have done*
CABLE NEWS.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 8650, 27 November 1893, Page 5
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