CORRESPONDENCE

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3636, 19 November 1918, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

ROBINSON v. ANDREW

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Mr Andrew tries to put too fine a point on it. I did not protest about his difference with our worthy Mayor. That is beside the question. It was his "discordant note" and the remarks attributed to him in the report of the Council meeting "that he had never seen more drunkenness in Feilding than at the demonstration," that I protested against. The stockmen who made the most noise, and are evidently accused of being the erring ones, were the life and soul of the whole procession; and I am glad to say that their conduct on that auspicious occasion was, as usual, most exemplary and sober, and not at all as Mr Andrew suggests.

Mr Andrew's example on that occason, if followed, would have gladdened the heart of Kaiser William himself, or any other Hun. He even admits that he did not feel delighted enough to make much noise, but just a weeny make-believe. Just fancy what a demonstration we would have had if all had acted as he had done — " made a weeny noise and the discordant note."

He did not object to the tin-can-ning. And what did Mr Andrew do to celebrate the occasion worthily? Nothing but sound the "discordant note." Shades of the dead—a discordant note on such an occasion! Shame on you, Mr Andrew. After our young men fought and won the greatest victory on record, Mr Andrew refuses to get excited, but acts like a neutral.

I have nothing to do with Mr Andrew's conception of his duty to the ratepayers. He is, as the stockmen's poet puts it, "talking a lot of Tommy rot." What has his conception to do with celebrations, anyway, to say the least of it? Mr Andrew is like some of my countrymen. "He is "agin the "Government" in any case, and his writing to you, Mr Editor, only adds insult to injury. Mr Andrew, if he is British ought to apologise to the Feilding public for his uncalled for remarks, or conception, as he puts it.

Who is the man who couldn't cheer, But made this discord loud and clear, When Kaiser Wilhelm shook with Fear 1 COUNCILLOR ANDREW. I am, etc., A. ROBINSON. Aorangi, November 19,1918.