THE NEW PLYMOUTH INCIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17736, 9 December 1919, Page 4

THE NEW PLYMOUTH INCIDENT

Last evening the "Herald" devoted a lengthy article to what amounted to a flat contradiction of the facts disclosed by the documentary evidence as to what took place when Mr. Veitch went to New Plymouth. No tribunal woxild seriously entertain an unsupported denial in the face of such an overwhelming weight of evidence, .and we are quite prepared to let it go at that. As to the further statement that the evidence was published at the time, and that the electors recorded their verdict thereon, we have only to say that such was not the case. The complete correspondence was never published prior to Saturday last, when we gave it to the public for the first time. Certain portions of it were published in, the "Herald" on the evening of the day of the poll, when the election was nearly over, and when it was obviously too late to have bee.n of the slightest avail in removing the false impression which Mr. Veitch's misrepresentation of the facts had impressed on the minds of the electors. However, the correspondence is now before the electors. It has been published in both papers, and we are quite prepared to leave it,to the people to judge between the evidence therein disclosed and the weak but well-intentioned endeavour of Mr. Bullock to impart a less unpleasant odour to a very unsavoury Incident.