THE RECENT REGATTA.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 193, 20 January 1905, Page 2

THE RECENT REGATT A.

j (TO tub BDnoR.) s Sib, — f a one of those wl o were B most prominent in getting up the re- , getta end sports for 1905 kindly s allow me space in your iraluable , paper to contradict a few sti tements . made, by “ Old Besident of K awbia,” I contained in a letter publishi lin last , week's Settles. Belative to tbe pay - . men! of prize money which 1 e harps . so much on. A man with .irdinajy intellect would know that if tt s money was in band the winners ooi Id have been paid, but tbe committee did not have tbe money till a. few da is later, and there are stilt some subs iriptions to come in. Of course we 111 know , that some people are cbron e fault , tinders, but it takes cash (not talk) to , run these things. If •• O. ii. ” (of perhaps 18 months standing) tied sub scribed a guinea towards th, regatta , and sporta ba may have be m privileged to criticise, but knowing that he , did not do so (even doing all that he ciuld to prevent others from lelping), I think that it would have j aid him better to have kepi to hitnseli bis personal bitter animus towards tbe offi cials. As for the men bavin to wait about Kawhia for their n ;mey. 11 onlvkoow of one that did s<, and bls larg'jfcnrennt of 11; fid I offer d to pay out oi ffly xoan pocket. A lent the prizes norming available < u Satur. day. Thrsjetatoment, l is i bsolutely falsa. Over £l7 was pair out on Wednesday and Thursday ni ;;hts, and tbe other prizes were availat e at Mr Jonathan’s store on Saturday afternoon. In any other civile rd place there is always a night set apart on which to pay prizes (usually the Saturday following), but here here are an exceptional few who e arn as if they have only a shilling or .wo to see them through, so if they i.appen to win a few shillings they vent to be instantly paid. “ O.B.” says I.hat in one or two cases the judges of the sports were rather short sighted :>t crooked i sighted. I feel sure that the gentle men referred io have the c.mfidence of everyone, and I also at:. convinced that their sight is not ar crooked as that talented person wh< , signs him- ** O.B.” Io the tilting at tbe ring I did not pull up and hav three pokes at each ring, as he wool I like to make out, but I will admit if it one of tbe competitors did do so As for the sports being run in the interests of one or two. Speaking Toe myself in this matter I can say that irhat I got out of tbe sports and regatta I had to pay and work for—which I believe is more than “ OB.” is capable of. If the fault finder aad put his shoulder to the whoJ. as well as I did we might have done batter. It is ab- ( solute nonsense talkirg of the Maoris , running the show twit time, for when I < they did have a deceit prize offered to , them they would net take advantage ■ of it. If ** O.B.” was at all manly fie i would have bad the pluck to sign bis i name and not hide behind a d, i plums.—Yours, etc., , GEO* MAXTED. <

Sib, —1 feel jusiified as a member of ► the executive of .be Kawhia Regatta r Carnival to make a few remarks in i repiy to the invisible prevaricatior “Old Bendent oiKawbia." He evidently •• tripped at the last jump,'* or I he would not ex sress his ignorance and shallowness of >sind op a mattyr o f which be is sc palpably ignorant, at he bad the pr /sumption to do in your issue of the Bth iost. Even tboee who are non cnnp-s mentis have occasional lucid intervals, as is evidenced in “ 0.8.’a ’’remarks relative to the tilting at ti e ring, which was anything but srtisfaotory, although not intentional!' done to benefit anyone, but merely ,(trough an error of allowing too mu th time in which to negotiate the co tree. In reference to his remarks al opt the Maoris conducting the regatii. it is hardly worth discussing, as .lie again cannot resist the temptatio i of expressing his ignorance of a matt r of which he knows absolutely no'king—Yours, etc., E. C. FALWABBER. Seo. KMI9OO, 1902,1909.