"ANNOYED."

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6494, 14 April 1908, Page 5

"ANNOYED."

WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, ETC. (To tho Editor “N.Z. Times.”) ■Sip,—When next you "attempt” to be witty you hud hotter nuiko 6ur© of tho facte of tho case you intend to deal with. I \v;i<d not empowered to “go where 1 liked” by Mr Rodgers, but through him 1 received the decision of my executive. A ho, tho "Autocratic Dcepot' and oilier expletives referred to were not "hurled” from a "packing-case' -«uch is tho unthinking nature of your zeal and vour complete disregard for facts, or the manifest laxity of your mcmory~but were delivered from tho platforms ot the Opera House in Christchurch and tiio Alliainbra Hall in Dunedin. Lor verification consult your Hie, as apparently vour memory plays tricks with yc»u. Inter alia, I was not aware the Zealand Times” office wa« a diplomatic a gene v for introducing "labour agitators, to "bioatid capitalists.” However, when next I reriniro introduction to any Minister of tlio Crown I will apply to Hie "Official Plenipotentiary'' of the New Zealand Times-’ Diplomatic Bureau. _ There is no purer way of narrowing down to hard and fast limits the once broad inspect of a man’ll ideas than- by soaking and floating him in polltical ambition. This especially B»ins to lie tho case with the Minister ot Labour. 110 has no valid reason—-nor did he express any to your representative—for refusing to see mo. I contend again that he allowed his private sentiments to interfere with his public. duty-. And last, but not least, Mr Editor, my name is not "Daniel,” but DAVID K. PRITCHARD. Trooadoro Hotel, Wellington, 13th April, 1908.