AN EXPLANATION.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 8

AN EXPLANATION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In the very excellent report of the Labour meeting held in the Newtown Library last night which appears in your issue to-night, one sentence .occurs which may conceivably convey a wrong impression. I am represented as saying that "when the council was in committee he (the Mayor) had said some harsh things about Sir John Luke." I had no intention of conveying the impression, as apparently I did, that Mr. Wright had said harsh things about Sir John Luke personally. What I intended to say was that hardly had Sir' John Luke vacated the chair before Mr. Wright was reflecting in what i I considered to be a harsh fashion on'the manner in which the finance business of the council had been transacted during Sir John Luke's term of office. I endorsed what Mr. Mitchell and Mr. M'Kenzie had said, that as a member of the Finance Committee during tfiat period Mr. Wright shared the responsibility, equally with every other member of the Finance Committee, for the way' in which financial questions were brought before the council, as well as for the actual business transacted by fhe committee, including the accumulation of the antecedent liability.—l am, etc., P. FRASER. 13th April.