FAIR FLAY IS BONNY PLAY.
[To the Editor.] Sib, —It is perhap3 unfortunate that under the regulations members of the police force are not permitted to answer what may justly ho termed a " blow below the belt." An instance of this has lately become public. When an attack was made on the local officers by the correspondent of the New Zealand Times, Sergeant Mitchell took the only course open to him, and decreed in open Court that the charge was malicious, and even made use of harder words than those recorded in the Press. That the Bench considered that there was just reason for this complaint is evident from the remark that the laying of informations against a number of persons for breaches of the by-laws that day was a sufficient answer to the charge made against the police. It is a very easy matter for a correspondent to firs from behind a hedge, but it is a despicable thing to do when the object of the firing has bis hands tied. Thanking you in anticipation,—l am, Ac., A Lover of -Justice. Hastings, May 26, 189 G.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 27, 28 May 1896, Page 3
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