MR HINE’S RECENT MEETING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 65, 22 July 1913, Page 5

MR HINE’S RECENT MEETING.

Sir, fn your issue of Thursday last, you publish in your parliamentary notes a personal explanation by Mi J. B. Hine, M.P. Mr Hino says he was referring to a coterie of goldmine speculators who. were heckling him. when ho said “prospectuses were meant to deceive.” Mr Hme’s imagination is of a vivid description: and I should say that he believes in the theory of re-incarnation, and ppbably the soul of a certain or his wife (who you read of in the New Testament) is abiding with the mem her for Stratford. Your reporter wa> there, as well as another pressman and His Worship the Mayor, who will bear out the statement that I quoted Mr Allen’s recent loan prospectus with its glowing accounts of the splendid work the past Liberal Governments had done. J then asked him if they were true, .or were they published with the intention of deceiving the British money lender? Mr Hine preferred to lot his own ' Party down, sooner than lie would admit the good work of past Governments, and his answer was that all prospectuses weie made to look as rosy as possible, but that, underlying, was the intention to deceive. I repeated that it was Mr Allen’s prospectus'! was asking about, and. Mr Hine' replied that ‘ the same answer applied. I think that even those of Mr’ Hinte’S own supporters who were 1 present will frankly admit the foregoing is a true account of what took place. His lame excuse about goldmining prospectuses does not apply to me. I never in my life had to do with them, and as the questioner, think that Mr Hino’s attempt to explain becomes lamer than ever. [ am, etc., ' 1 -«-v << /-.-r Tn

C. D. SOLE Stratford, July &L, 1913.