CORRESPONDENCE. THOSE FOOLISH PEOPLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1916, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THOSE FOOLISH PEOPLE.

To the Kditor. Sir, —May I ask for a little space to let tile public know what a lot of foolish people we are? The .Pukoaruhe road ratepayers sent a deputation to the Clifton County Council to ask them to get the metal contract pushed on a little faster, as they have been paying rates long enough, and seeing very little done. How foolish of the Council to ask cho contractor to get his old bullocks going again! But how foolish of a contractor to "go off pop" and rush into factory whey tanks, with dogs barking at him! | Then he joins the flying corps, or something of the sort, with a hard hitter on. Then the next foolish set of people I hoar about are the householders of Pukearulie school district, for whom a most important looking mar offered his services as_ a committeeman, the ballot showing him he was not wanted. Then, again, the ratepayers of the Mokau riding were foolish enough to de the same thing with the same man. I would also like people to know that the shareholders of the Whitecliffs Dairy Company are also very foolish, as the ballot papers also told the same tale when he offered his services as a director. Next there AYere a lot of foolish men who formed a meat 'company somewhere about Hew Plymouth, and after a foolish man making himself think that he was just the man to take the chair at the directors' meeting it was worse than a shell-rock pill for him again to find that he was counted out. However, I think if the Expansion League has him in hand for a while he will be all right, ad he is not such a bad sort after all; in fact, there are not many who know the value of the man, only himself so far.—l am, etc., A PUKEARUHE FOOL.

PLAY THE GAME!

To the Editor. Sir,—There is an old saying that it is a poor bird that fouls its own nest. 1 am tempted to think of this when I read in your Saturday's issue a short reference to my impending departure for the*"front. Now, there is only one man in thia district who would write in the strain that this letter was couched in, and that is Mr. J. W. H. Martin, of Wai-iti rond, and after the treatment I have received for weeks past at the hands of this gentleman, I consider it a deliberate insult. Why, morning after morning I have met Mr. Martin coming from, going to and at the factory, and could never get, as much as a "good morning" out of him; in fact, lie was generally looking at the scenery on the other side of the Toad. When the settlers in the district were kind enough to give me a send-off and small presentation, this gentleman neither offered to subscribe to same in any way nor would turn up himself, although asked to do so, and only one son out of the whole family turned up. Therefore. I say that he does not mean what he writes, and I naturally resent the reference from such a source. I should like to advise Mr. Martin, if he wishes to do his duty to his country, and get a V.C., to leave Tourist and Expansion Leagues, Freezing Works and Land Boards alone, and come home and milk his cows, and let hi? sons away to do their duty, and whilst doing so bear the following in mind: "To thine own self be true; and it shall follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." —I am, etc., ROY M. GUNN. Pukearuhe, October 14.

WHITECLIFFS FACTORY.

To the Editor. Sir, —I have been accused of writing the paragraph under "Pukearuhe Notes," appearing in your issue of Saturday, relative to the condition of the Whiteeliffs factory. I wish you to give me the opportunity of disclaiming the authorship of such a contemptible attack upon my fellow directors, who, in face of great difficulty, due to the absence of labor because of the war, have done and are doing their best to put the factory and its surroundings in a proper, efficient state. If the public realised what the directors were up against, they would know how to discount the spiteful attack made in your columns, and form a proper of the party responsible.—l am, etc., W. J. FREETH. Pukearuhe, October 18.