(To the Editor.)

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 21 May 1919, Page 4

(To the Editor.)

Siv f —ln your issue of last eW&iii» % g appears a letter signed P. J..Power! • As an aiguiiaent for its appearaucf. ti, pi oiasses to be in, the way of a reply to & pvevious> oovrespondent \signing ]iii»self••63-." Most all it says, iwivever, about "6<i" or his letter is (ttha.t lie is not a toilei? and v lacks that fellow ieeling which makes us. wondrous kind." Thi* is palpable clap trap, aiid a preiiniinary floui-ish o£ trump-e^ to attract attention. If yom: readers wiU take tiie trouble to lead between- the tinea.,, they can hardly fail to come to the concLusoa but that the letter is intended to serve no other purpose- than to inflame one section of the- community against another. What do we in New Zealand care- about tlie Dvk c of- Hamilton ov any of G>reat Britain's Dukes--? Whafc influence can one Duke or all the. Dukes, ha-v© upon one single individuaL in, New Zealand? There are,, however,,, some, of u& who do know that the. nobility, at Home carried out. most tho«wghly the p4iiei£le of "noblesse oblige" all through tho war. And- what is. wrong, about Lloyd George's j speech? "Whatever is ifotim "inq.ui±ous" about it? It i» temperat*,, sensible, ana conveys a useful warning,. AVhafc position should, we;, in^ New. Zealaiitt have now had-it not beeii for the wonderful patriotic energy of- Lloydi Geoi^e? And who :is. P. J../Bower-,; anywaj,, to call Lloyd Gteorge a& fool; .andi pno^iesyv his downfall: beca^e> ol thi&sfieech? Is he a Sinn Feiner. I^V.W.,. Bolshevik, and all'combined, br what? Why, his lett#r is propaganda pune andi simple,, and carries every appearance of having been published with, a. single purpose^ —an evil one.—t am,, etc.,. W. HO. GLAKE&