OUR READERS’ OPINIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3624, 10 September 1912, Page 6

OUR READERS’ OPINIONS.

ISN’T IT GRAND! (to the editor.) Sir,—l am only a plain worker amongst the people, poor and fairly honest, no education to talk oi. neon :»n the Borough service four years.. L r«‘ad the letters signed , “Anti-Uppor-Lunist” and “Opportunist” ; the firstman must be clever! Doesn t he sliou it ? Look at his words satire, “verbiage ” “rhodomontade,” "pyrotechnic.” Isn’t it grand F I wish i was lie! 1 looked up satire in the dictionary; it says “satire is the ebbulition of an unhealthy mind, hankering after spurious, epigraminaticI terseness of expression. I mis frightened to look up any mote, wouldn't vou F But poor man that f am I* know ‘■Anti-opportunist’ eaeui’t know what he’s talking about iid ; •()jmortuiiist ' does. Dr 00lIns may "be a “satire,” “verbiage, “rhodomontade,” “pyrotechnic, or anything else he likes to call him. but he’s right and 1 know it, while the Knoanoer’s wrong and ho knows it ; end Mr Pettie can’t administer ■ml he doesn’t know it. and you know '•])■ Editor everythiugs wrong, and we' know vou know it. and we know you know yon will shew it up when the rime comes, and “Anti-Opportunist Is a “duller” and doesn’t know it. 1 am ' eU " “IGNORANCE.”