A COMPLAINT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1929, Page 5

A COMPLAINT

i A •- 4 OF UNFAIR CRITICISM. BEFITTING 'INVERCARGILL *f ; : : tNVteRCARGILL,' May '4 Considerable indignation .has been ",;.i roused in Invercargill l Aver a» report ~'■ which has appeared in the “ Otago ; Daily Times ” to-day of the opening ceremony of the May Fair yesterday. The paper’s writer makes a reference to “ bitterly cold weather,” and adds: , : “ Rousing strains of martial music ! issuing from massed brass bands could not overcome the effect of the cold, nor could the inpirmg skill of two pipe bands make the motley crowd forget their numbed feet and watering eyes. •The -small fry,-iipon! Wlioin so much of !■* !the incidental. wqre j,| .very- sorry /(fpr 'ithQm.selvqspaftei:!; tlifpy » ■ had been an hour.dn .thO'show grounds with a, biting wind piercing their lioli- j day garb.” l ! DA tv"' t.> ,'i it] Letters of protect have; already ap- 1 * l>eared in the pffcs&, and .the; latest one n | comes from the (Prime -Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, who states: ‘‘l have read the report in the ‘Otago Daily *. Times’ with feelings of surprise and -»| regret, inasmuch as the writer hall { apparently made up his mind to por-i tray everything in connection with xlie ’ May .Fair-. gloomiest depressing language vhe’ could find! The weather at this time of the year . i could not he expected to be as fine as -. jcould iifive(fioen : bju£ {fiere was • fjj nothing in my opinion to justify the »* gloomy outline given to the i general proceedings'At? tHe nival.” jb ■ Sir Joseph: saidifthat?"the weather was all that could be desired at this t time of the year, and the large atten- *jj dance that gathered at the Show Grounds' took ajjd; interest in the proceedings that ‘bad been arranged by the Committee.