MR. WAKEFIELD, M.H.R.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 44, 21 August 1876, Page 2

MR. WAKEFIELD, M.H.R.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST SIR,— So Mr. Wakefield, M.H.R., &c, &c, after the well-deserved snubbing he got from the Premier rises in a virtuous fit of wrath and assails the character of men who gain their livelihood by the sweat of thrir brow and intellects, calling them loafers, parasite?, &c Let me shortly review part of the career of this immaculate judge. Mr. Wakefield, M.H.R., was (plea-e con ect me if I en- ) private secretary to Mr. Stafford at the time that gentleman was Premier. When his serv'ces were no longer required, a billet was p.orured for him as a supernumerary clerk in the Customs, Dunedin, at a high sa'ary, with little to do, whence he emerged into the full-blown editor of a newi-

paper. Comparisons are odious, but I would ask you which you consider the biggest loafer, a man, or men, dependent on nobody, and asking nothing from anybody, who from sheer feelings of admiration spontaneously give a cordial welcome to a man who they consider has benefited the colony at large, or|an upstart who possibly did not know, or had forgotten, the meaning of the words loafer and parasite at the time he was drawing public money for an appointment, the need of which was not discovered until his necessity was known. In olden days whipping stools and horseponds were made available for wilful and malicious slanderers, it is almost" "a l&tfV&fr cannot be revived. I am, kc, A LOOEBR-ON