CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1922, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

“PECCAVI." (To the Editor). gi r . attention has been drawn to' a paragraph in your i*™ of Saturday July 29th. m ivhieh you take me to task for “One of hose Court pleasantries” in which I made an allusion in the Court of /?P ei f J. ... the 1917 Licensing Act, and its / shouting clauses, apd ventured the suggestion that it had not jet bee hS of in' “Little Hokitika” where 1 had recently been. Let - Lt that the “little” is the diminu- £• 1 vevancUig!'document, the ifStixrrSea 1 :. graceful compliment mg hospitality of riokiriK. ssjs - i„P town. Even now I find « 1 , warm-hearted hos to believe that tme . L,Uv of the people of Hokitika can pitahty or x e 1 momentarily be ■ restrained or even checked by a pedantic re S* T mere Act of Parliament. Still ~e a t I should not have said it. I believe the alleged offence given «s not lo much due to my flappancy £ to the fact that it was reprinted m the columns of your ‘‘rep-fcile co ** t noraries” in a sea-port to the north, which we know arrogates to Use f the pretension of pl»™ g ' -r.:» i- » blows unkindly, nnd the golden “j“beams >re occasional obscuied > j coal dust. i( I am the more sorry for my u pleasantry” in that it has had serious consequences. A large number of my Hokitika friends are in Clmstchurc this week, not, as the cynics m '' suggested for the races, but as a deputation to the Progress League, and anxious are they to live down the unmerited slur upon the reputation of Hokitika ,of which I have been guilty, and so. circumspect has been their conduct in consequence, that 1 have been seriously asked whether these gentlemen are really a depu ation to the Progress League, or . whether they have not rather come over as delegates to a Temperance Conference. But T am determined to be forgiven for my faux pas so that I intend the very next time I come to Hokitika to make a vow and absolutely refuse-hut*. - ul> _l do not think even you censor though you be, would have m so punished. Besides the results might be disastrous. If my friends heard of my vow ,tliey won d emp me at every turn to break it, ■ > alas. I have long since discover • I can resist everytbing-except temp tation ’ Yours, faithfully, 0. T. J. ALPERS. . Ghristchurch, Aug. 9th.