UNFAIR TACTICS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 8

UNFAIR TACTICS

MR. M'LEOJ) DENIES A CHARGE. (From Out Own. Reporter.) Martinborough, December 12. Those who are onposimj the candidature i of Mr. A. D. M'J.v-od have alleged that ho. as a member of the executive of the Waivarnpa Patriotic Society, carried a ; resolution through that association discon- | finning dm irrant of ,£1 then being given ! to every dischiirgod soldier who had enlisled in the. W-airnrnpsi. The payment was really to sinipl3m"nt the allowance of SOs. per week then • being paid by Hie Govfrnment. Mr. M'Leod leferral to this innlter, nddvesfinsr two meetings of solflier.s nnar the Camp yesterday. Ho said that lii> with other inemhers *>f the Wfiinrsipii Pntrintir. Society hnd from the outset" protested that the mufti allowance was too small. It was bfemisn "f the inadequacy of the payment that fhe society cave oven- man £■> But he hnd never thondit that the payment should be a district-• matter. Tt was a liivtionnl mntW, and 'ho had done morn than an- other man tn wear out Sir I -Tames Allen's carnet by the frequency of I liH vis-ih l-o fie office on 'fin's very matter—the inrrwi-o of the mufti nlInwnnce to M. A little experience of the working of the district scheme proved its •un.nirnps!!. A. man who had been born and bred in Wnirnvapn. but onlisHn? in somo other district, was excluded, while a strange' , nnli«t-.in? in V/nirnrnpi. nfbr a few weeks' residence "-as entitled Io recivo th" ,fl-. will-., ih<- roll of honw' of Hip school n"nr his homo contained WH pnm«, but nnly U of tlie men wor" oli?!'ole for Hip jranf. T-|,j s ~-os manif«tly unfair. Sn h« vote'l to -lispontiniie l l'p <rrnnr. mid to nre« for fie 'icrens" if ti-n ornnt bv Hi" T n tlip pud the Govpri""«i|i yieldpd. and he thought, he "'a= ptit'H"i ! to til-mi sh-irr' of the r"»dit *or ob'-iir'ntr tl'i<; concession for all eol-ljpr? TTr V\"'-«H Hint iuttioj, „-, ""'- beiii" don" to him in ;-onneclion with t-iij.- w>ttp r . TT" nw bv no mr-!in<; a=bnnif<l of his word. "When Hk. m'l lvit\«r mad" f "r w»n." ii.n -.-id, "there were manv of u? wl"> throiioh jw nr "ther niienc v -"v> ruab'p f-o "O. find T mad" nn my niinri (- •'-> nl' in mv pov«r tn !"si?t in t l -" pfirt Io pollwt p, „„,(,], Plon( , r ns for wound' I ' , n ,,,| f nr ~n.. n . Ji-f nurnn'P-- Tt w.is my n<>vilpirp to collect siiuii frnn> 1--.. tn',.einwi f i'oni iii"'i ncpordimr Io f'cii- uio.iiis, nivl it wns often n= r-w>nt a nVhw" (o me to r-eeivp o T m c hillin'r or fivn sMll'iitjs '-o rpppivp .PIWO Afi-T n'l. it i< Hio n-jll \ n "iv«. ral'iei . Hip" Hie «iz" of the p ;ff, that i* irapnrtnnf. No" 1 , T '•'innlil nev'' hnvo *w' to I!m= .it nil but fm- Hip M. t-nipt lhn| it- lipinir mnde to iniiiro inp in II'!; '.»• misri'urpspiitntinp o f mv nl-Mtudn. Hut T am not nshnmort of my vpnii'd. T on not "oiii7 M refer furtlmV tn Hip s'lWpnt pvppnl In ar> niy onnon"nt. then c'lii"? pi(i-e" if Ihp Wairarapa, how much did he do?"

The Kinir nnnuillr jivps a tn]i\ niednl to the slii'lent at tho Kint' Ed«ard VI Grammar School, King's Lvnn, who disnlays the highest general proficieiicv Hn-outrhoiit the year. Tha distinction this year ha? been won bv Walter Wvnt't flrave. ii<rnrl 17. who k the son of a T.vnn solicitor's cl"rk. In the rncpiil r<imbrid'.ro Local Senior E-taniinn-linns rirave obtained fir=l-clo rs honimrs with distinct'ons in relipioiis knowledge, gengrapli.v, pliv'icil (fPO(rrai)hy. T''""cli. niul Siiiinish. He was the only candidate in Knglnnd who obtained a distinction in Spanish,