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Taranaki Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 14343, 22 October 1910, Page 7

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(To the Editor.) Sir, —Some four years since, when on on my way here from Wellington, 1 toll in company with a gentleman in the train who, on learning that I was proposing to settle in New Plymouth, entertained mo with a long tirade against this place and its inhabitants. According to his showing, both had antecedents too bad to admit of any decent person takjng up his residence here. He reminded mo strikingly of the spirit which I had met with fifty years before as actuating the language of tiro neighbouring towns in America, which used to amuse me then as his maledictions did on the long trip here. He was equally bitter and equally in earnest in his hatred. When wo reached the Waitara junction my heated and amusing companion left the train, and on my asking his name of a fellow passenger was informed he was a Mr. Matthews, of Waitara. Can tho Mr. Matthews who has favoured us with two long, incoherent diatribes in your columns in opposition to the Greater New Plymouth proposals be identical with my quondam fellow passenger? If so, I can well believe that any movement beneficial to this place would bo as gall and wormwood to him, as he, like everyone else, must know that unity is strength.—l am, etc., B. ENROTH.