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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1894, 3 April 1888, Page 2

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[We do not. hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. To ensure publication* however, it will be necessary for writers to avoid personalities."] MR. COURTNEY IN REPLY. To the Editor of the Star. Sir, — I should have answered Mr. Roberts' letter long ago only I have been busy, and if you once put a thing off you choose to do so. However, better late than never. In the first place I am obliged to him for not adding political kedging to my other sins. Mr. Roberts Bays lam not to paint it so rosy next time. I don't intend to do so, as it is not as rosy here as it was when I first saw Home. Mr. Roberts says I told him a good milker could get 20s to 25s per week. I did say a good all-round farm hand could get those wages, and so he could at the time I spoke. No. 2. He says I said men got 8s per day ; why has he not said that I said at harvest time men got as much as 8s per day, and why does be be misleading and infer that those were general wages, which certainly, eir, I never did state except as harvest pay. No. 8. I have always understood that was a good road from New Plymouth to Hawera. No. 4. That it only rained out there about one day in a fortnight, and mostly at night. Now I am not in the habit of saying a thing to which any man could give the lie, such as the above, and if Mr. Roberts would think he will see the matter fully in his statement. I never held one meeting in England at which I did not state from statistics that it rained in New Plymouth on 160 days as against 178 in London. Now, if that were the case, how could it only rain one day in a fortnight, but I will refresh Mr. Roberts' memory and say what I did say was, and any old resident can boar me out in it, that sometimes in winter we have a fortuight without rain, except perhaps a shower at night that would affect those going to a dance. No. 5. Let Mr. Roberts inquire before b.6 rushes into print, and he will find plenty of guava doing well, and I say that any man who would take ten acres of land anywhere from Parihaka to White Cliffs and cultivate guava would make more money per acre than anything else in Taranaki. Now as to the most serious of charges, my engaging a man in England when there was no place for him to go to. When in England I received a letter from Mr. Wm. Bayly, to which there was the following foot note ; — v I would give employment to a first-rate farm laborer such as W. Burton sent out. To such a one I would give 20s per week and board." Now, on that I sent out as good a man as there is in the country* He presented himself to Mr. Bayly, who said he had not ordered me to get him one, and that he did not want him. So when I arrived Mr. C. met me on the pier, and said I had sent him on a fool's errand, and he wanted it explained. So next day I handed him Mr. Bayly's letter, and when he showed it to him he expressed his surprise, and then paid Mr, C. £3 for the three weeks he was out of employment. It is easily explained, Mr. Bayly' has a very large amount of business on hand ; he bad the letter written by a member of his family, and had in tour or five months altogether forgotten it. I have had transactions in large matters with Mr. Bayly, and always found him, a man of his word. I would like to know, if I misled Mr. R., why has he induced his brother to follow him? However, when he is getting a return from the land I hear he has taken up, I have no doubt he will feel better, and will be pleased to sell some of his produce to those I hope to send into his beautiful locality at Huiroa. I leave here on Friday night en route, via Rimutaka, for England, and will be more careful to keep close to facts when I find the way our statements can be turned. — Yours, &c,

Wm. Courtney.

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