EQUIVOCATION ?

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3821, 14 October 1936, Page 5

EQUIVOCATION ?

Sir, —The Rev. Coldham-Fussell is side stepping, and I don't blame him. If I had been pushed into such a tight corner as he has I guess I’d never stop wriggling. He certainly is being bombarded jvlth his own artillery! He now apparently wishes to deny that he attacked “anyone who could be so disgustingly low as to amuse themselves,” etc. I would like to believe that he had been mis-re-ported, but I am afraid not. Now he says that what he denounced was “the attitude of the promoters." Anyone who likes to refer to your issue of October sth can sea that lie attacked “all who amused themselves.” Then, again, in Friday’s issue he reiterates that all who thought the show amusing “proved that their tastes were disgustingly low". Surely lie has not been again misreported! The vicar describes my statement about intent as “utter rot," and as an analogy cites an incident ot himself shutting his eyes and firing a shot down Alexandra Street. Very ap propriate; that’s just about what we d expect him to do. He certainly came into this argument with his eyes shut. Well, one does not need to be a K.C. to know that such a person, on proving he did not intend to hit anyone, would be acquitted on a charge of murder; whereas it he intended to and did kill someone he would be condemned to death. Can the vicar deny that? So much for intent. As for finding it embarrassing to shoot somebody one has never met, I can assure the Rev. Coldham-Fussell that in the next war there will be a good few workers who will refuse to go overseas to participate in the legalis ed murder ot other workers whom them have never met. The war-mong-ers will be the ones who are embar rassed then. Touching on the final paragraph ot the vicar’s letter, he says- we are resentful because the church objects to her services being parodied. He is wrong. We object—cr at least I do —to his bombastic attack on all who took part in or enjoyed the ceremony, especially after he has been assured that there was no evil intent. —I am, etc., MOCK, STOCK AND BARREL. KAWHIA’S REPLY TO TOKANUI. Sir, —Knowing what a jolly good sport the Rev. Coldham-Fussell is, we feel that your position has either been falsely conveyed to him or you have gone too far and deserve the conse--quences thereof. Priests of any denomination must back up their church’s teachings, and we greatly admire him for doing so. Why not have drowned, as one would a cat, the old hours ot work? So great seems to have been the "Revellers’ ” sorrow that "no flowers, by request,” was printed on their invitations. No doubt they are still mourning their loss, (we wonder)? Are “Mock, Stock and Barrel” and the rest afraid of their identity?—l am, etc., A. MACKENZIE, Hon. Sec. Young People's Club. Kawhia.