Tikokino Sports

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 9

Tikokino Sports

THOS. B.

JACKSON,

(To the Editor.) Siiy— May we trespass a little on "your space to make some reference to a letter in your coltmms by "Humane. " We do not wish to enter into aiiy argument with this gentleman, but inerely to correct an impression which his reiparks are calculated to convey. - We resent, in short, an attack which imputes an ijxdiiference on the part ofthe Tikokino Sports Club to the horrors of a very terrible disease. We imagined we had made it flear in our originai letter to your papt-r that our monetary lcsa would be counted but a small contribution towards eecuring immunity if we had been able to feel that our smalj sacrifice wero ifot to be negatived by the sanctioning of conditions that indutiably cwxstituted a graver peril than than those that would have obtained at the Tikokino sports. Ineidentally, my books show that less than 15 per cent. of our total attendance were children in 1936. We do not admit that any of Ihe sporting attraotions that were held were of lesser menace than our gathering, but we should especially like to mention •#ie fact that the Eailway Departmenr was given perxnission to run packed escursion trains into the infected area. It is perhape no more than a coineider'ee that within a fortnight of these excuraions there should bo a rather alarming recrudescence of the disease in districts south of Hawke's Bay. We could, of course, Sir, enlarge eonsiderably on this letter, but we do not wish to do more than correct an impression that tho Tikokino Sports Club is unable "to think in terms other than that of cash." We still contend, however, Sir, that we have been made one of the victims of a departmental decision that apparently induces a certain. gullible section of the commufiity to cloak the responsible authorities in a mantle of virtue. — Yours, ete.,

Hon. Secretary Tikokino Sports Club. Tikokino, April 16.