THE GILLESPIE CASE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 8

THE GILLESPIE CASE

(To tho Editor.) Sir. —Mr Nash's Dual reply in connection. with my ease is. in compliance with his request respectively submitted for publication in your columns. Please publish my (not Dual) reply to Mr Nash’s elusively worded document which speaks for itself In connection with Hi is matter. JOHN GILLESPIE, Palmerston North. March 28, 1924. Mr J. Gillespie, Gillespie’s Line, Palmerston North,

Pear Sir, —I have lo acknowledge receipt of your open letter, and return same herewith. As you are apparently not pre. pared to tender mo an apology. I decline to receive any further correspondence from you. Yours faithfully, J. A. NASH, M.P.

An open Letter to MR J. A. NASH, M.P., Palmerston North

Sir, —I have received your reply to my open letter addressed to you on the 24th instant, and find from it that you have finally decided to shirk your parliamentary duty in connection with my case under a proofless insinuation that an apology is duo to you from me Permit me to point, out to you that apart from that phase of the case you surely understand that no apology from me is needed to induce you as the peoples' parliamentary representative to defend your reputation for credibility and rectitude when dealing with public affairs, the purity of which I have in plain and unmistakable language challenged in an open letter to you dated 10th instant. A copy of same was, at your request, published in the columns o.f “The Manawatu Daily Times" on the 13th instant, where it remains on record unanswered and apparently incontrovertible, and, wherein, in the absence of any explanation from you to the contrary, it shows that your proofless allegation that an apology is due to you from me, is unworthy of credence. I am, yours respectfully, JOHN [GILLESPIE, Gillespie's Line, 31st March, 1924.