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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18293, 9 July 1921, Page 7

THE LOYAL ORANGE MEETING,

TO TH» EDITOR. Sib, —Under the heading $f “The P.P.A. Meeting,’’ Mr Robinson states that “ whether through ignorance or bigotry " I said something that is contrary 10 fact. Mr Robinson’s universally acknowledged tolerance renders his suggestion of bigotry most poignantly painful; and as to ignorance—well, no doubt, anyone who disagrees with Mr Robinson is ignorant. What Mr Robinson knows he knows, and there’s an and end to’t. 1 feel, therefore, assured that it was you, or one of your myrmidons who put the heading “The P.P.A. Meeting.’’ “The P.P.A. Meeting’’ was held at His Majesty's on Monday; tiro meeting at Burns Hall on Tuesday was not a P.P.A. meeting. Mr Robinson doc? not make it clear as to when the evidence of the gentlemen he refers to was given. I presume it was of a comparatively recent date, and I distinctly referred to the period of the eighteen eighties as a time when Protestants in the south and west of Ireland suffered severely; an allegation that conditions have improved since then scarcely affects my statement. I wish it to be distinctly understood that I have to work for my living and cannot undertake to enter upon a newspaper correspondence with Mr Robinson. Mr Michael Joyce also flatly contradicts my statement and relates an instance that surely should convince the most obdurate. A devoted husband used to drive his wife every Sunday morning to the Anglican Church, and, having dropped her there, drove himself to the Roman Church. ’Nuff said 1 I am convinced. Mr Joyce, however, might have told us how long (or how soon) this was after the honeymoon, and further, what sort of a time the poor husband had when he went to confession. —I am, etc., F. Wilkinson.

[The heading to Mr Robinson’s letter was ours. — Ed. 0.D.T.1