"IN HIS MIND'S EYE."
Ml! EXPLANATION.
Mr. C. H. Poole's "explanation" of his insulting reference to Waihi in the course ul' a speech in Invercargill is by no means regarded as satisfactory by the district caiicomed. The Waihi "Telegraph" says the "explanation" was most unsatisfactory: ' "lie would have done better if he had owned up to it, expressed his sorrow lor having levelled it, and promised better behaviour in future. But instead lie is attempting to brazen it out, and is falling deeper into the mire. Our contemporary tho 'Southland limes states emphatically that its _ report of Mr. :Boole's reference to Waihi was a very mild sununaiT of what lie reMly saiu. Wo bi'liovc what our coniemporary says, for iC is impossible tn imagine that n reporter would invc-ni- an untruth niid ascrib;- it to a public- speaker. While Mr Poole savs tbo report is inaccurate, 'he makes no attempt to show where it is S3 excepting that he now asserts thin in hi* remarks on Waihi he had in his mind's eye Hie riot which' occurred in April, 11)05. If he had the riot in his mind's eve, whv did he keep it back from the'audience? Is it not more probable that he would have made the most of it? Is Mr. Poole tho kind of individual to keep bsck from an audience a point which he considers is a strom; one? Did lie have ths riot in his mind's eye at' all. or is the mind's eye business brou-lit in as a gull to the public? Those are "ouestions that present themselves to the public of Waihi,- and the answers are self-evident. In his speech at Inver-c--r"iU and in his letter to the secretary of. tho local branch of the League there was not one word about tho liot, so that what he declares was in his mind's eve did not seem to occur to him until Sunday afternoon at the Auckland Opera House, a fortnight alter tho aspersion " thinks tho "moral of it all is that the No-License League should impress upon its lecturers tho necessity for keeping as near to facts as possible." ________
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1150, 10 June 1911, Page 14
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357"IN HIS MIND'S EYE." Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1150, 10 June 1911, Page 14
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