THE ISSUE IN AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17286, 29 September 1916, Page 9

THE ISSUE IN AUSTRALIA.

TO THK EDITOR. \ Sir.—ln your leader of to-dav on “The Issue in Australia” you sthte that on tho platform of Sydney Town Hall on the occasion of Air W. AI. Hughes’s conscription address, there was amongst other Labour representatives the editor of ‘"The Vorker.' Not having a detailed report of that meeting, I cannot dispute that statement, but neither can I credit it. But if Air FI. E. Boote is still in the chair then I am surprised if your affirmation is correct, for it is a complete change of front to tlje attitude he adopted when I left his contributing staff twelve months ago. The solution, however, maybe that it was the late editor and present manager, Mr Hect-or Lamond,' and not Air" H. E. Boote. who lias "become Prussianised. But ii I am wrong and you are right, then “ Touchstone ” has been fashioned “holler ' ; or may be he has been walked out and a second trial given to a man who identified himself with “conscription of body” when the chief of his paper was writing strongly against it.—-I am, etc., HUGH STONE. Christchurch, September 28, (Our information was taken from an Australian newspaper, and the name mentioned was that of Air Lamond. —Ed, “ L.T.”)