LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1631, 24 December 1912, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

A SNAPSHOTTER'S DEFENCE. Sir,—l appeal to your spirit of fair play for leave toieply_ briefly to the fierce and altogether unjust attack which your local par.igraphist makes upon tho press photographers who were snapshotting the reception ceremony on Thursday. He accuses us of "rudeness" mid a "disgusting disregard for good manners," and says we "stalked his Excellency in a most shameless way." All this because, in the- discharge of the duty we owe to the leading pictorial papers that.we represent and for the benefit of th© . vast public who were unable to attend the ceremony, we were taking photos for press publication. May I tell your sour critic that Lord Liverpool personally assured me today that ho felt in nowise annoyed at the attention he received from the press photographers. At tho sanie time 1 can .'.easily diagnose the cause of the.-par-agraphist's bilious attack. Immediately after the reception ceremony So asked me to let him have one of my pictures when ' printed off, and I told him with perfect truth and the utmost politeness that I was quite miablo to do so. Now that ho has glutted his. ire witli printer's ink, I hope he may have e speedy recovery to good tasto and fair dealing.—l am, etc., ONE OF THE ATTACKED PHOTOGRAPHERS. [Our correspondent, .no doubt, is a model of good manners, and is perhaps equally well qualified to pronounce judgment on questions of good taste. The public who see' tlieso photographers at ivork, however, probably have their own opinions, and not very flattering ones, concerning the methods of some of their, number."] THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. Sir,—During tho course of the day I have been credited by several parties with the authorship of one or both of the letters appearing in your issue of this morning signed "Onlooker" and "Interested." You will oblige me by making it clear that this is quite a dclnsdon. In making this disclaimer, and asking you to endorse it, I may frankly say that I \thoroughly concur in the views expressed by the writers of .both contributions, and while I can only pretend to guage public opinion in a very ordinary way .1 should conclude that in tho matter of approval of tho sentiments of tho writers I* do not by any means stand alone — I am, etc., A MACINTOSH. Wellington, December 23. Sir,—One is rather amused at the letter of "Onlooker" in your issue of this morning. After jeering at the acting-chairman of the Bank of New Zealand for being a critic of certain matters, "Onlooker" proceeds to adopt tho role of critic of the financier in question. Unfortunately, too, in accusing Mr. Beauchamp of a blunder regarding exports and imports, and instancing England as a. country which has weathered insolvency in like case to ours, "Onlooker" has himself blundered. The English aro a lending people, and receive a vast annual income in interest. We as a people are the reverse. I have a very slight acquaintance with Mr. Beauchamp, but I believe him to be right in this matter.—l am, etc., ONLOOKERS DO NOT ALWAYS SEE MOST OP THE GAME.