FARMERS’ UNION.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 970, 17 August 1903, Page 2

FARMERS’ UNION.

(To the Editor of the Times.)

i Sir, —Mr H. N. Lysnar’s vulgar attack on Mr Clayton requiros some little comment. To begin with, Mr Clayton’s quotation is as he translated it oorreot, nowwithstanding tho Parikanapa cow spanker’s very free translation, “Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes.” If the cow spanker or H. Lysnar can translate this into a mania for scribbling, let both go back to their classical masters and be well flogged as they should be, unless they translate tho above as follows, “Many have an incurable itch for writing, an incurable propensity to become authors.” Of your charity, sir, correct me if in error, as it is nearly forty, three years since I suffered for its free translation, j Mr Lysnar’s attack on Mr Clayton’s private business is, I consider, uncalled for, and if the Farmers’ Union would interest themselves in their own particular business the Union would be of some good. As it is now it seems the Union keep up little petty squabbles and let the main interests pass by—dairy farming, poultry farming—which will to my mind be as big a matter as Bheep farming in the near future. If such matters were dis- I cussed at the Farmers’ Union Club much I good would result. But no. I suppose that 25 yeara hence, like the dairy industry, Poverty Bay will suddenly wake up and find the eyes picked out of the poultry business, and then sit down and I erowl because “too late'for the fair.”— I am, etc.,

Robert Moate. [lt should perhaps be explained that Mr Clayton was not responsible for the parenthetical note, which was jocularly interpolated, being the free translation given by a well-known author.—Ed. Times.]

(To the Editor Gisborne Times. Sir,—Mr Hilton Lysnar’s letter of Saturday is so eloquent that it answers itself; therefore it requires no answer from me, and as there is a strong feeling that this correspondence is doing both clubs more harm than good, I do not propose to afflict you with any more on the subject.—l am, etc.,

Lissaxt Clayton.

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