OTANE PATRIOTIC FUTURE..

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7911, 26 July 1917, Page 2

OTANE PATRIOTIC FUTURE..

AND TEE “WAIPAWA Mi, COMMENTS. WERE THEY UNFAIR] Appearing in Tuesdays i bune” was a paragraph Otane correspondent alleging a ness in the “Mail’s” comma,? the administration of the i Patriotic League’s funds. R t f, thereto will be found in our 1 ( columns, and emphasis is gj the points quoted by the f o ij letter which has been addressed resident of Otane to the < bune’’:

Sir, —In your issue of Tuesday J ing your Otane correspondent'J thus: —‘ 1 Considerable disgustl ben expressed by the members Otane Patriotic League at the id for and untruthful criticism J League in Saturday’s issue r,f| ’Waipawa Mail.’ ” Sir «| Own” would infer that the did ones are the League, lock, st JI barrel. This is not so. Peru might be information to “I Own” to know that there are! dreds of members in the above J The qualification is the payment! shilling, or any person bavin,] tributed more than that amojj entitled to. membership. If y said “ some members were dispj I could have believed him, for! light of recent events there d tainly a few who are disappoint! they could not secede from tkj War Relief Association so far J Wounded Soldiers’ Fund is eJ ed, and who are now wriggling J the hole they have got themselvj and would blame the centre M delay in handing over the j There is another side to this sU “Your Own” knows it. 1 Sir, does it not seem strand the other associated societies tU out Hawke’s Bay are handingi] money collected by them regulari! making no fuss about it? 1 He also tells us there was noJ -ion at any time to withhold the J from the central body. Theßi been a movement afoot for somel to control and disburse funds J as the central body was playingl ism with them. This movemaj minuted in a notice of motion! chairman of the League that the] Patriotic League secede from tw War Relief Association, and when that gentleman found Ins] tion untenable did he withdnil notice of motion. He still clad right as trustee to hold the fund tlie central body mends its wad the last subscriber (and thd legion) is willing; and last butl least, until the consent of the 1 nor be obtained. And yet ‘1 Own” would say there was no 1 tion to withhold the money. 1 He also states that a motionl unanimously carried that the J be written to asking if the ■ should be kept in the Post Ol handed over. As a matter ol In proposal was made and secondJ chairman acquiesced, and that J eud of it. The motion was net* to the meeting. The atmospheil so electrical that “Your On'] the chairman must have been I come. Instead of being disguitl would congratulate the “ffj Mail ” on its criticism of the J of the Otane Patriotic he* funds.—l am, etc., path! Otane, July 25th, 1917.