Rehabilitation And All That

Wanganui Chronicle, 19 April 1949, Page 4

Rehabilitation And All That

Sir, —I have little to add to my letter of the 7th instant. Thanks to Mr. Montgomerie, the real issue raised by Grade “A,” which concerned the “niggling” attitude of, and lack of effort on the part of the R.S.A. Farming Committee, have been completely lost sight of in a mass of irrelevant “ *mph” which no one but Mr. Montgomerie himself seems to understand.

My only interest in this gentleman was his headlong interference in a matter which did not concern him in the least, and his unwarrantable attack on Grade “A,” whose only crime was that he “dared to have the temerity’’ to express his own personal views though the columns of the Press.

I am not in the least interested in, nor impressed by Mr. Montgomerie’s socalled “challenge,” nor all the pompous palaver with which it was issued. It is obvious that any such meeting, as he suggests, would be so much useless repetition, and would resolve itself into just one more public parade of what the challenger is pleased to call “his array of solid integrated facts” have already been dangled before the public on every possible occasion with regular monotony over the past few years, without, so far, producing anything in the way of noticeable, solid integrated results. I would suggest, sir, that the £5 Mr. Montgomerie would so wastefully expend on himself, could be put to much better use by some such worthy institution as Heritage, and if he is willing to send it along to you for that purpose, the writer will make a similar donation. We shall then both have the satisfaction of knowing that at least someone has derived some benefit from this correspondence. Now, so far as I am concerned, Mr. Montgomerie may oncq again shelve his ponderous portfolio of facts, figures and fancies until the next, perhaps more appropriate, occasion offers. That he will be distraught at losing such a golden opportunity goes without saying, and before the missies of his invective begin to fly, like my alleged prototype “Musso” (who, by the way, was always challenging someone about something), I shall seek the safety of my “bullet-proof limousine - ’ and at the same time remain “cringing” behind the added ■ helter of my nom de plume.—l am, etc., “ALSO GRADED.”