REPLY SOUGHT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20112, 5 December 1939, Page 6

REPLY SOUGHT

LETTER TO “SCRIM" LAWSUIT CHALLENGE FARMER PRESSES CLAIM SINCERITY QUESTIONED (Pur Press Association,) WELLINGTON, this day. The following letter from Mr. J. ,T. Maher, farmer, Mungaroa, to Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour, Director of Commercial Broadcasting, has been handed to the press for publication: “On Tuesday last I wrote in reply to the challenge issued by you. In my letter I asked you to name the judge and the Supreme Court selected by you and to inform me of the time and. place when and where my witnesses were to attend. “I further asked you to inform me on these matters without delay on account of the proximity of the court vacation. To date I have had no reply. I am sure you will agree that as the evidence of witnesses must necessarily be based on their recollection of your broadcast, it is essential that the matter should he disposed of at the earliest possible moment.

"I have no hesitation in saying that, in view of your delay in acknowledging my letter and in view also of your references to he matter in your broadcast last evening which, to say the least, was in very bad taste, your challenge is not backed by your sincerity. However, if I am wrong in saying so. your immediate reply to ray letter will establish this.” “Yours Truly. “James Joseph Maher.”