MR BIRRELL IN REPLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1828, 8 August 1906, Page 3

MR BIRRELL IN REPLY.

(To the Editor-Cl is bo mo Times.) Sir, —1 cb.strva hy your iauio th a mo nirg that I have bren ended to account re uiy utterances at tho meeting of the Gisborne Farmers’ Union held on Saturday last, r; garding a meeting which was held betwcon the Government tenants ef L’oup -.rae, Waiutario, aad Willows, and Mr Carroll. Now tho circumstances oi • bis mr.ctn.ig being sailed together arc us followu On Friday, ths 27:h July, I came sero s several settlers from Watmaria and Pauparao who wiabc-d to see Mr Carroll, and place their loss by floid before him I did not know when or how they cool 1 meet him. I, as a member of tbo committee of tho Farmers’ Union Club

(wliioli is always at disposal of suoli oasos), at onoo offered to phoo tho Olub at their disposal, and also to got Mr Carroll to moot thorn, which oiTov was thankfully ncooptcd, Mr Cauoll hoard all their statements, and osprossod his sympathy and ultio his determination to got riliof as far as ho was nblo by tabatements of rout. Mr Joyoo was not prosont at that mooting, noithor was liio To Arai run mentioned. As for meeting any of your reporters and stating that ho would not bo required, 1 would fool obliged if you would question your stall' if suoh was tho or.uo, and, if necessary, I will mako tho sauio appeal to tho lloralJ, In faoS, by tho genoral request of tho mooting, I was askod to report tiio proceedings, as thi ro wss uo time to summon report! rs from oilhir paper, Mr Carroll boing duo at a function at Waikanno early in tho aftornoou. Ido not wish to oontiuuo this oocrospundonoo further, hut I rathor think " Ono Who was Present ” was not prosont on tho occasion roforrod to, and oonscquontly ho hs3 boon barking up tho wrong tree. —I am, 010., li. M. BIRIIELL.

|Mr Hit-roll did not tell our reporter that "ho would not bo required ” at tho meeting roforred to ; but an intimation was given by Mr Carroll's privato soorotary that tho mooting was to bo a priyato one, consequently uo report of it wus published in those co'umns. —En. G.T, |