CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 326, 19 December 1888, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

j Under no circiunßtanoos is the Editor responsible for the matter contained in correspondence. RE MR HADFIELD'S LETTER. f*To the Editor/] Sir,---Ih my brother's absence I am possibly acting in opposition to his wishes in taking the slightest notice of a letter from Mr E.Hadfield in your paper of Dec. 12th, in which lie attempts to place my brother in a false position in. connection with the re -leasing of some sections of the 'Thames High -School Board, and holding himself .up as a martyr of ill usage. By a perversion of the truth, as in this case, it is sometimes possible to make the worse appear the, better cause, but even this poor sntisfac-; tion is awanting. As the circumstances : are so well known here that I need hardly give a rough sketch of the subject in question — premising only that every transaction my brother acquiesced in was to be subject to the consent and approval of iht Thames High School Board — The matter 'is in" a manner under two periods, the minutiw of which I need not enter into here ; the t first, embracing the effect that on certain conditions my brother wojild part with his interest in these sections to Mr'Hadfield, hut which: conditions the latter failed . to. fulfil, ; although I believe he didpny £50'onJ account, all of .which and more was, swallowed up in expenses and- interest. Then, a time, came when lladfiald's interest in the matter, was extinguished by the Official Assignee, my brother having tofbetuv the, brunt of arrears .of\rute& and taxes. In pity for this man's posi.tion,, my brother 'unfortunately complied yrith'the request to try to get the, Board , to take him or his wife as'-tenant,' but this, after a jjime, ; was peremptorily Ve-1 fused, though the result^ would iju 'nil I likelihood Jiave been different if'Haii^eld ' had, not again failed to\ pay- any reqits. i I need not extend ,an ; ujiintoresiin^i subject, further than to spy t|mtVlasty,enr' ,my« brother - instructed .iiiie tb;,4ak|Vthe .necessary, steps'; to remove Hadfield from f.lie sections,^ but 1 .. dh a the n< urgen|/;anti', plaintive appeal of ; Mrs liaijfipjd ' last,; February Ileft it jh abeyance,vn;m'*vvill -If again; enter* on the T subj|ct in! thjs^formi, but trust/that when AifHaUfiel^resbrts ; ,to'_ the. newspapers elicit f syrap"ath*y* Eej Will choose subjects' .more suitable,;thani this or hisformer.i > one,-~I I ,ampetc/,, i- , - I */r.-oV' xi ? '$?*? * -' J,; J.^MußK^Xr seju;.:?;;;