FAIR PLAY

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 367, 20 June 1884, Page 5

FAIR PLAY

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —l must apo ogise for trespassing on your space, bui a love of fair play prompts me to address yon on the subject o 1 the request sent Yo our worthy lay render, Mr I u-on, 10 resign. In the first place it i- out of order ; the proper const; to be pn sued b\ ii"y p.-r: o 1 ' ili i -:i i! .•. j !i. .;i > i- -i i r W 1 ulil h-iV In mini ti ■ oii'i.i.n in' m Kfing'io • lisfussj the mlvi-ability <•£ l^quesiin^r him t ■ resign, yet what <to we see ? One inemb rof the ".oramittee makes up his mind that Mr Tusoa is not a fit aud proper person to hold office and straightwn}- go'\s and drafts out a requisition that Mr Tuson be asked to resign, and. in case such a grand opening to slap a worthy man in the lace should be lost, takes it round on Sunday and gets two or three of the committee into sijrmng i:-. I have no doubi this gent iernau \va-> actuated entirely by aj>"o bono j)iiblico spirit. Ido no' for a moment think he had any malicious feeling towards Mr Tnson—not at all! Public virtue h is been shocked, and he must see it righted. J ll the next pi >ce, it is unjust —a gentleman who h-is done the work that Mr Tuson has for the church i* surely entitled to a little more respect than this. I leave this point to a common sense view. They have dealt Jedburgh justice to Mr Tusou : first comes the execution, and then the investigation, and last of all or perhaps not all the. accusation. I will not trouble you further, but conclude with the hope that the cougregation will decide whether they are going to treat an old friend like this. —l am, &c, E, A. Labatt, senr.