MR. CORRIGAN’S REPLY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 30 April 1927, Page 6

MR. CORRIGAN’S REPLY.

To the Editor ot the “Timaru Herald.” Sir, —I noted a letter in your iesue of to-day, train a. correspondent who signed himself “Consumer.” Well, sir, I feel certain that none of your respectable and intellegent readers would expect me to reply at any length to his scurrilous epistle. In fact, only through an insinuation he made about a certain gent'emnn, who, it 1 am right in my .surmise in whom it is, he 'would at one time think himself polluted by your 'correspondent clc-anmg his boots. ]. feel certain that elm letter was never written by an auctioneer or a .stock-agent in South Canterbury. In m.y letter that he refers to, I was very careful to say that 1 had the greatest respect for the 6tock-agents ami auctioneers, who i think are thoroughly respectable gentlemen. My grievance is not with the men, but with the system. lie refers to a gentleman 1 could help in Ins farm. 1 know a hundred men that would want assistance to be kept on their farms. 1 challenge your correspondent to coino out in the open, and prove where 1 ever sold a farm that the purchaser is in financial difficulties or was ever harr. -.ed by me. If lie can, I will pay .£'2s to any charitable Institution lie m.ines. I have no respect for a letter written by anyone that is cither afraid or ashamed of iiis own actions, which “Consumer” must certainly' be, when he read his letter in your valuable and widely circulated paper.—l am, etc., M. J. CO RIM GAN.