CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 31 July 1922, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION. (To the Editor.) I Sir, —Had it not been for the unfair aspersions cast upon tne good name of Mr tetevens, I shuuld not nave troubled to reply to any of your anonymous correspondents. The reflections against that gentleman caused me to hasten to reply in his defence, and, inter alia, to explain the procedure applied in appointing officers and delegates to elect! a candidate, etc. I again assert .that' the whole of the business was done at a publicly advertised meeting of Liberal supporters, the minutes of which were confirmed at a subsequent meeting, also duly advertised in your paper. I contend that I have answered "Disgruntled Liberal's" unwarranted charges effectively, and I believe to j the satisfaction of the majority of your j readers, and rest fully content to leave' it to them as to whether I am likely' !to be a party to any hole and corner i business. • If I have failed I am prepared to take the blame. The rest of the questions (most of which are puerile and nebulous) asked by "Dis-: gruntled Liberal/ "Labour/ 1 and "Lib-Lab" I shall not attempt to answer, as they or anyone else could > catechise until the crack of doom, and the argument would still remain un-j finished. There will be a proper time and place to interrogate Mr Corriganj as much as they like on the political' problems of the day; in the meantime • yours truly is not on the hustings, j Furthermore, I have no intention of. being inveigled into a long-drawn-out ( correspondence, and object to being; browbeaten, cross-examined, and cate-j chised by a coterie of writers whose j bona fides are at l^ast open to grave, suspicion, sheltering as they do behind' the bulwarks ef anonymity. So "Labour's" friend wins his bet, and "Lib-Lab's" implicit faith in me has caused him to break his word with his friends. This, sir, is my last word, and your correspondents may, and probably will, criticise to their full bent, which they are entitled to do. They may pour on the "acid" as much |as they "wish, but no more "cateI chisms'," for I shall not respond. In j conclusion, may I state that further ! meetings will be duly advertised, when \ T).L. and L.L., if they are what i they profess to he (which is doubtful), j will be made welcome, along with any j other Liberal supporters. —I am, etc., i E. A. PACEY.