THE PENALTY OF CRIBBING

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3248, 19 January 1926, Page 6

THE PENALTY OF CRIBBING

[To the Editor.] Sir, —In your issue of this morning under the heading of "Butchers ‘Go Slow’ for Feildlng Works," you publish what appears on it's face to bo interview with myself. I beg to say I have not had any conversation with your representative on the' subject of freezing affairs, and have not at any time, given him any Information on the subject. At least two of the statements appearing In the report are quite Incorrect, and some of the others are likely to cause misunderstanding.

It must bo obvious that, under existing conditions, it would be most unwise for the chairman of any Freezing Company to make lengthy statements for publication. , I am, eto., JOHN G. COBBE, Chairman, Feildlng Farmers’ Freezing Co., Ltd. Feildlng, January 18, 1926.

[When the "Standatd” Cribs from the columns of the “Times” —as It does with monotonous persistency—-it has the satisfaction of knowing that the information it annexes Is correct. Now, when the "Times" has/or once found it necessary to crib from the “Standard," it falls in badly. This is distinctly unfair! We hasten to apologise to Mr. Cobbe for giving the errors burled in the obscurity of our contemporary’s columns the much wider publicity of the "Times' ” circulation. The facts, briefly, ar e these: Late on Sunday evening the delegate at the Aoraagl Freezing Works (Mr. Queenan) rang this oflloe, and asked for permission to reply to statements alleged to have been made by Mr. Cobbe. As it would have been distinctly unfair to Mr. Cobbe to have published the reply without the statements, we scissored the latter from our contemporary’s columns. The “sub” should have known better than to publish the “interview” without verification, but, then, how could he know that some one had been “flying a kite?”—Ed. “M.D.T.”]