LADY STOUT AND THE MARRIED MEN

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 93, 22 April 1919, Page 7

LADY STOUT AND THE MARRIED MEN

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Lady Stout's letter in your issue of the 21st instant is a direct libel on the married and unfit men of New Zealand. As one of them, I protest against such a statement, coming, as it does., from the wife of the Chief Justice. A libellous statement has been circulated amongst our soldiers at the various fronts to the effect "that the New Zealand girls did not intend to marry any returned soldier for two years"—consequently thoy thought that the wowsers had collared our fair country. Lady Stout, in her effusion, denies her culpability in that statement, but follows it up by charging the married and unfit men with being the fathers of the illegitimate children, etc. Now two wrongs do not make one right, and Lady Stout would have been well, advised to refrain from making rash and untrue statements about men of any age or status, without direct proof.— I am, etc., UNFIT. Wadestown, 21sfc April.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—As a "Married Stay-at-Home j Soldier," I resent most strongly Lady Stout's letter in your issue of 21st inst., [ and I ask her to apologise for the undeserved slur she has cast upon "the married stay-at-home soldiers." Her remarks about a woman who is universally respected by the members of the N..Z.E.F. —at least, that is the impression I have received from many a soldier—are on a, par with the rest of her effusion.—l am, etc., - MARRIED STAY-AT-HOME SOLDIER. 21st' April. [Several other correspondents have written in a similar strain, protesting strongly against Lady Stout's remarks.] ■',