COUNCILLOR NORWOOD'S CRITICISMS
TO 111 IBlrOlt.
Sir, —Councillor Norwood's alleged criticisms fail in the prime essential necessary to constitute real criticism, that is, the fairness of allowing two sides to the question. He says the vendors had not gone fully into the scheme. They put their whole business in, and he pro- | mised its, return in hard cash with interest. The business w« put in is no more, non est. We have done our part. Has he done his? Oh, no, not a bit of it. Further, his claim now is that we put our reserves in as well. During part of the time our labour, instead of being compensated for, was being pulled on at the rate of £100 a week to save the committee from the penalties of its own ignorance and ineptnees. We have a task which we will give a good account of in the end, if they don't make it too hot for us to reach the end. More will have to be said on this matter later on, but it would be only half serving the purpose to labour the argument now. The public are offered a potion which may prove to be a medicine or a poison. So far they have only succeeded in proving their inability to grasp the big issues, and all that has been done has to be done all over again. The reference to the vendors in such a case as that under discussion when Councillor Norwood made his gratuitous attack was "herring across the scent" or "when your case is bad abuse the other side." The bottle delivery i? wrong in principle, but may get through as an expedient. If glass be used, contemplate over 100,000 bottles in some sort of use every day in Wellington, with all the contingent risks of such a handling, apart from the cost involved. Then the board to be set up! Two commercial men at £200 a year and a neophite medico at £600—£1000 a year, superadded to the top hamper of a touch of philanthropic feeling! We are getting very light from these luminaries, and our progress is not on to the hard, but daily further into the mire/and the only tangible prospect of ■waking up some fine morning to find a million gone and no real progress to show.—l am, HENRY BODLEY. 9th October. *
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 87, 9 October 1920, Page 6
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