ANONYMOUS CRITIC
Counciiior Thinks He Shoald "Go For Him" The rights of a councillqr to reply to anonymous criticism in Press correspondence wag a point raised for a ruling at a meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council? when Or. G. R. Fleming asked the Mayor, Mr E. R„ C. Gilmour, for precedents to guide him whether to reply 0r not to a letter allegedly attacking his views. "I will be totally guided in this matter by the preeedent of other councillors," commented Or. Fleming, "but I woqld not enter into correspondencq Fith the slippery kind of fellow whq has no name or who has forgotten it." The Mayor : We take no notice of any aponymous letters. If a man is not game to come into the open and have a fair fight he is not worth fightipg. I have numbers of letters merely signed "Ratepayer," or other forrns of noms de plume. A counciiior- So do we all. Mr Gilmour nevertheless copsidered that if a letter was sigjqed by the correspondent attacking an individuai counciiior the ceuncillor should "go for him.'^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 17, 4 February 1937, Page 13
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