HAWERA SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12243, 17 June 1909, Page 4

HAWERA SCHOOL COMMITTEE ELECTION.

To. the Editor, \

Sirj-T-Updii my return from Auckland my atteiitiori was directed;,to the-letter vrittan by Mr Dixon, -and published in .: issue of the oth inßt.... The-writei; is as unhappy:; as..he is, uhveracio.us—l hope and believe he is" not .consciously |iiitruthful.; ,_ Without wishing -io. discuss : the 'actual, questionv. at, issue (for .-the least said or'.written;''of; such'a defi'iiitoend proi^puric^d indication: of narrow arid, wicked Tetigipus '- the :•'

XeifceV for the good,name.among nations: of our Dominion) I desire, as a duty, t-ii; contradict ere .it 'is. too' late cue statement affecting nryself. I" refer' to tliq statement—" The «x-member of Parliament nominated by their-^side.;for;the chair was their[nominee, at the .Parlia-mentary-.election^ i.e. ; the 'nominee of the 'Ronian' Ciatnolics*„ aiid tfie: Tiiquor ' Party. To that I give my emphatic dei lia 1; th c 'statement • i% ; a4 (ey,ery one Iha v^. in.c Any knowledge of the subject knows, quite" without foundation^ It is wellkhowh that .the pronouncement? of the Licensed Viotuailers^ ' was t),iat it could "npt sujpp^rt a iGroyeriiraent '.: with three Ministers who were! pledged PrbTiibitionist^ and^ a vWho. was a pronounced sympathiser with" Pfohibi-' tion: Again, I/did not obtsiiia: the support, of the Rpmaiv Catholics or of any particular religious denomination. '.The Ronlan Catholic,vote was almost equally; divided between my opponent and myself . -I -write to give *Mr~ Dixon the opportunity of rettacting; his -statement,; that, a second : thought him, is : unwarrantable and ,js a ; Wrong perpetrated-upon myself in iriy capacity os a% public man.—l r am, etc. -■ "J *■ ->■■ ■ ■■:= ■■-M^.:*..G:^*isLAjoß,.'\. Hawera^ -14th.',.June, 1909. .l v r,, : ,