Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 37, 17 July 1939, Page 4

Dear Sir,

Letters to the Editor must be clearly written on one side of the paper. Where a nom-de.plume is used the name of the writer must be enclosed for reference purposes only-

SCOTLAND FOR EVER

Sir, —The maniac (for such he must be) who wrote the scurrilous columii about the unspeakable Scot in tlw "Beacon," should be in the worst ward of a Mental Hospital. He should net be at large—the police should seek him out and keep him under observation. To think that* there is a man with such distraction of mind amongst us, and at beats me.. He acclaims Cumberland. That man . was known, in the days of Prince I Charlie as the Bloody English Butcher. What a name, but well deserve*!. He was paid £25,000 a year by the English Government, his job being to destroy the clans of Scotland. He was given an army and a free hand.. ,For a period of 35 years he burned Scottish homes and hunted and muii dered Highland Chiefs or had them T beheaded. No cruelty was too brutal for him. Your demented correspondent speaks of Cumberland's order''Noquarter.* He thinks that pair of words very fine. Allow me to ptifc against that Sir Colin Campbell s famous order at Luckwood. Sir Colin surveyed the position and thought it most difficult. His order to his Officers was ''Bring on, the tartan." In a tight corner Sir Colin knew the worth of the Scot. It was the Highlanders of Scotland and others of Celtic blood that won Britain's greatest battles. And it was the ScottisK pipes that led them. ''Gualainn re their war cry, is to them, as if sworn, and n,o man looks back. Your correspondent's ridiculous nonsense about the tartan the kilt, the thistle and the pipes is a deplorable waste of words—a disgrace to them and to the English language. As regards the Highland warpipe. Towards the end of the great war the brass bands were withdrawn and pipft bands substituted. The war worn' weary soldiers were led on and off the field by pipe , bands. There was im sweeter sound to the soldier on the battlefield than the skirling of the Scottish bagpipe. No sensible person dislikes the\ Scot, his Scottish ways, his or his dress. Look how the Sassanachs (English) flock to join with us at out monthly ceilidh. And we welcome them —we are not cockeyed like your Sassanach correspondent/ Those that : are Scots and those that would like ' to be Scots make quite a multitude. The man who wrote that coloumn. 1 I venture to is the only one [ of his kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Thank the gods for that, in* countrymen. He is a poor specimen of a human with a poorer mind — ■ none poorer ever put pen to paper. 1 His whole screed is venomous frapatj . end to end. No, nameless one (f& : give a bawb to know who is you). - Your ridicule will have no effect. ■ With pride we'il still wear our belov- , ed tartan, and play our pipes * Scot--5 land for ever. *'Tir nam beann n\n • gleann *s nan gaisgeach.'' I Yours etc., KULLOCHGORM.

COURT REPORT 1

Sir—ln your Court news on Friday you state that judgment was giver. against mc for £9 to R. Whiltle. T did not, and do not now owe £9 and the Clerk of the Court that full well for I have that in writing. Will the Clerk tell us why gave to the reporter of this - these details. There is a complexion about this matter which, is not at all healthy.,

I rang Whittle's solicitor. He says he knows nothing about it. Whitil£ himself says he knows nothing it and referred me to his The public may form its own opinion of this very shady business. C. J. NORRIES. (In the above connection we have ascertained that the only point m which we were in error was the amount named (£9 which should have been E7). There is no ment : on of judgment having been entered for this sum. We regret if we haye caused our correspondent on this account " (Continued foot previous column) The part'culars were n,ot obtained from the 'Clerk of Court but were: supplied to our representative was present. Ed w J Nurse lost 401bs fat in B week's. Try Bonkora. Obtainable at F. Xx*t* Macklow.i Chemist, WJ^Jpfcane.