Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 96, 11 February 1892, Page 2

Correspondence

THE ADVOCATE ON LAST TUESDAY'S MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir, — The Adyocate is evidently tryto hoodwink its readers with reference to the proposed visit of the Premier to Feilding. The first attempt to mislead was in not publishing in the advertisement the name of the person who convened the meeting. Then, in its report of the business it picks out and puts into its own shape such things as suit its purpose and while the requisition, more particularly the heading thereof, is reported inaccurately. The signature that was almost last it mentions a3 if first, and then chuckles over eighteen others following. In its local on the subject it is very careful to abstain from giving us a very probable reason for what it calls a " thinly attended meeting," that there were two other meetings being held at the same time. The writer of the paragraph seems disappointed at there being no prospect of a complimentary invitation to a banquet, but this one of the things we sometimes haye to put up with in this wicked world. I take it, however, that whatever may be a journal's political or other opinions, to which it has a perfect right to give expression, it should at least give fair, accurate, and uncoloured reports of facts in its news columns. J am, etc., Fair Play,