United Friendly Societies' Sports, Carterton.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 19 December 1905, Page 5

United Friendly Societies' Sports, Carterton.

[to the editor. I

Sir, —I am directed by the Sports Committee to ask you to kindly insert this, our protest against the utterly selfish action of a section of the Masterton community in their endeavor to injure this, the first of our annual sports gatherings, by promoting a counter attraction at Masterton on Boxing Day. Our meeting has been advertised for several months' past in the Wairarapa papers, and there is no excuse on the score of ignorance for arranging a counter attraction, in the shape of a Liberal Picnic, at Masterton, on the same day. Besides, paragraphs in the Masterton papers yesterday went to show that our claims were recognised. If the gathering at Masterton on Boxing Day is persisted in, we trust our good friends in your town will show their disapproval of suchimneighbourly action by patronising our gathering instead of the Liberal one.

I would also point out you have the great Caledonian gathering on New Year's Day, in Masterton, and we have always respected your rights to that day. We feel sure your sense of justice will secure us space in your columns for this protest.—l am, etc.,

Jambs Brown, Chairman Sports Committee. [Mr Brown goes a little too far in accusing a Masterton Committee of endeavouring to injure a Carterton celebration. We are quite sure the Committee in question has not been actuated by any such motive or intention.—Ed. W.D.T.]