'TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16152, 5 March 1918, Page 5

'TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS."

Sir, —I hope you will allow me to refer to "A.P.F.'s" letter of February LBth. I would like to "xielt" him with a few facts on my own account, although, in view of his "poetical effusion" about Job (though why Job?), and a correspondent of yours, I feel sure he will easily be able to regard them as a minus quantity, seeing that they concern mera religious objectors. These men are six in number, and all belong to one family. I rofer to the Baxter brothers. As they belong to no 6ect they hare no relief under the Act, and so three are among the "famous fourteen" (deportees), one is a prisoner at Tompleton, another at Waimarino, atd tho sixth is in daily expectation of arrest. AH six, I believo, are farm hands, and could have given efficient help to their country by feeding her. Instead, "the country has "flung them into exile, and jail, and they have no redress. They have, too, an aged mother of nearly seventy, whom, it seems to me, we are treating barbarously. I heartily agree with G. R. Butler that the country, and we ourselves, are disgraced by such a record, and, unlike "A.P.F., I beg to back up my opinions with my name, —Yours, etc., ELIZABETH HOLLOW. Redcliffs, March 4th.