The Greytown School.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2018, 17 January 1887, Page 2

The Greytown School.

*. To the Editor of the Standard.

Sib, —Will you kindly allow mo a small space in your paper to reply to " Fair Play ” I will not trouble you again on this matter Should any further comments lie ma'e I shall treat them with contempt. Ho si -ns “ Fair Play,” I think “Foul Plav " would have been much more proper. Now with regard to “ Mr Udy being ashamed of himself for writing such a letter.” I say that I wrote the truth, and lam not ashamed. There is a saving like this, “Speak the truth and shame the Devil lam now trying to do it. I may inform “Fair Play ’’ that I have been asked to take the chair several times by gentlemen, and they have thanked me for the same, independent of the thanks of the meeting. At any rate I never wished to be chair-* in in of such a meeting where there was such confusion. He says “ during that meeting any person could speak as often as he pleased,” referring to Mr Cotter being on his lags several times. There were several others on their legs. If it was wrong for people to be on their tegs would you have them to be on their heads ? As for calling forth “ unfavorable criticism from a large number of my fellow townsmen,” I have been among them over thirty years and I am well known. As for “ Fair Play,” I consider him a cur for having used my name and having withheld his own. I shall never court “ Fair Play’s” favors, nor care a straw for his frowns. If “ Fair Play ” was anything of a man, after using my name, be would have signed bis own at the bottom of his effusion. But now I must say tbat be is a dastardly fellow. I am, &0., H. Udy, Sbnr.