OUR RECREATION GROUND

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4379, 27 February 1909, Page 3

OUR RECREATION GROUND

(To the Editor.)

Sir- —In Tuesday’s issue of your paper, I noticed a letter signed “ < 'aimy Scot.” "Why was he not truthful as well as “ canny ” and sign himself •• Mean Scot.” Really the contemptible meanness of some people is pitiful. Have not the “Kilties” Baud a perfect right to make a charge for admission to the Waihou Domain ? What about the expenses they are found to incur ? Did not the Te Aroha A. and H. Society make a charge for admission to their recent Show ? But perhaps “ Canny Scot ” sneaked over a back fence to witness the Show —like a small boy who crawls under the edge of a circus tent. The only thing I find to admire in “Canny Scot’s ” letter, is that he is frank enough to own up that he is not above stealing an entrance to the Band’s performance, even though he lacks the courage to sign his name—(perhaps he fears “ the man in blue ” might keep a look out for him ) It is really remarkable how many people mistake the meaning of the word “canny.” It does not signify “mean ” in English (as “ Canny Scot ” evidently thinks) but merely “ careful.” lam a Scot myself and am proud of the fact, but hope I may be delivered from “ canniness ” from “Canny Scot’s ” point of view—indeed I very much doubt if he is a “ Scot ” at all, at any rate I am ashamed of him as a fellow countryman. —I am, etc.

“The Real Mac Kay.”