"A COMMENDABLE WORK."

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 224, 1 September 1905, Page 2

"A COMMENDABLE WORK."

(to the editor.) Sir, —I notice in your last issue a letter from one who signs himself “ Oparau Settler,” who says that he saw at a settler’s house some Maori children, which fact has evidently offended him. In passing I may remark that I hope “ Oparau Settler *’ is not identical with the person who was ordered off a settler’s premises because he was not trusted by a Maori Child and who quitted promptly, as the child emphasised the command with an American *ll Golts. Some people show their interest in the business of others to their discredit, and it wohld undoubted have been to the advantage of “ 0.8.” if St. Stephen's School or Dr Barnado's Home bad trailed him, as be (it not too weakminded) might possibly bare bean taught to mind his own business. It is certainly to his discredit that when he writes to a paper ba haa not the o imiga to sign his name. I thought Oparau was fairly clean of those who take- an interest m the business of othep, but the letter from “ Oparau Setter" (if he or she is really an Opalau settler) showa one black sheep in qlr fold.—Yours, etc., G. H. MACKENZIE.