SURNAMES WANTED.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 210, 11 September 1901, Page 3

SURNAMES WANTED.

v To the Editor of the Times.)

Sir,— Under the above heading your correspondent, G. 11. Wilson, writes to state that lie will not reply to any correspondents who do not sign their surnames to what they wish to publish re “ Sacerdotal Breeches'.” I have just been reading an interesting article from an English journal on the question of anonymous correspondence, and the conclusion the writer comes to is that it should be encouraged. The greater part of the correspondence in the daily papers is under a nom do plume, it being the exception to see a writer’s name to a a letter. Few persons havo the same amount of assurance that Mr Wilson appears to have, and perhaps their letters are not so ably written. When a writer signs his name to a letter he has to answer to every Tom, Dick, and Harry he meets in tho streets as to its contents,

and this a person of a modest disposition does not care to do. Mr Wilson evidently finds he has been cornered by “ Vox” and “ Hopeful,” and accordingly takes advantage of this loophole to back down.—l am, etc.,

Brown