ANOTHER REFUTATION. .

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1301, 2 December 1911, Page 8

ANOTHER REFUTATION. .

PROHIBITIONISTS CONFOUNDED. FUETHEE ; FAKES EXPOSED. MESSES TEEWIN AND M'INTTEE ; FLOUTED. : The following letter which'appeared, in the "Wairarapa Age" of yeetorday'jdato needs no : of introduction :— . : THE BOTTLE PHOTOGRAPH. [To Um Editor.] I Sir,—l; read in. your issue of, yesterday ! the report of the two gentlemen'from I Feilding'who investigated'' 'tho' 'M'Kaiia-' way-Haminond. No-Li«inse' argument,! in : which they publish 1 that they, suspectod! that the of my" yard containing '[bottles: was taken bofore NoLicense." Now 1 , eir,' a etart, ■'I depend upon t ay living, on,collecting and selling bottles,, and I therefore cannot afford to pile up bottles: and ./keep' thorn in my, •'for nearly; th'roo yoirs,. in "order to make them look' .impressive j . .and, secondly, there'are photographed in' that photograph some of my children, ono. of'..Whom' was not even: born at the tiiiio No-License came' into'foroe. I'miiy say these two gentlemen called' at my' little yard, indal though I was there,' made no inquiries of. me, simply had. a look,' and left. .1 make a good liring, out .of the ooilection- of bottles ,ih Mastorton, and I'am'only on« of a number who do so, and: it is immaterial to me whether these gentlemen think, one way or tho other, but; I do object to ..being made out dishonest', and, accused of misrepresentation in the matter. Now, in conclusion, if it is any information to your readers, I may say, that not only were the number of bottlofj photographed in that photo collected in Mastorton,. but many thousands of dozens Wide*.—l am, etc., < ' ' V . T. RIDGWAY. ••