GREYMOUTH'S CRITIC.

Grey River Argus, 14 November 1928, Page 6

GREYMOUTH'S CRITIC.

Sir, Though not conversant with newspaper etiquette in the matter of replying to letters appearing in papers, I must confess that a letter appearing' in last night’s “Star” signed by a “Wellington Visitor,” and criticising the Coast in general and the “Argus” in particular prompts me to defend Greymouth’s fair name, and the “Argus,” as one. of the Dominion’s most successful provincial newspapers Dealing with “Wellington Visitor’s” criticism of the “Argus” first, perhaps a solution of his dislike to the paper may be found in the fact that the “Argus’s” political views do not happen to coincide with his own. This alone would account for the “Star’s” correspondent’s attitude to your paper. Next grievance is that the hospitality extended to him was the invitation to “come and have a drink.” Having partaken of the. drink, “Wellington Visitor” is pained at the thought of having to return the compliment — a strong believer, evidently, in the anti-shouting act. I would suggest to this “Wellington Visitor” that a good remedy for not having to return a “shout” would be to refuse, to breast up to the bar to partake in a “wee drappie.” Never to my knowledge has a man been compelled to return this compliment of a drink; .it is against all the convictions of a West Coaster. Several more grievances are aired as to our theatre. For the size of the town it is undoubtedly most up-to-date, and one has only to travel to substantiate this. The females are recognised as the fairest in the Dominion and it must have been through jaundiced eyes that the Wellington visitor saw them, or perhaps he may have been prejudiced by the fact that his manly beauty, which- may have been the sensation of his own home town, had not the same effect on our Greymouth girls. It must be admitted th nt strangers are usually accorded a cool reception and it must be also admitted that this is to the credit of our girls. It may also interest “Wellington Visitor” to know that our young men, as well as the pioneers of the West Coast, are famed for athletics. His adverse remarks regarding the weather are too stupid for words, for if he took the trouble of looking up the weather statistics, he would discover that wo have as much sunshine as any city or provincial town in the Dominion. AN OLD COASTER.