THE MAROKOPA MEETING.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 16 October 1908, Page 2

THE MAROKOPA MEETING.

. .(to tub editor.) Sir, —Most speakers at a public mealing find iu publicity a sufficient check on their utterances to save themselves from making reckless stitemsnts, and usually endeavour to raise what they have fa say above the per si fl age often indulged in, in private talk. Mr E. C. Stanley can hardly be placed under this category if what he said at tbe Marokopa meeting ia correctly reported, viz., he “thoughtibe Kawhia County Council was a laughing stock for the people of New Zealand, and was known as such from the North Cape to the Bluff.” The first part of this statement may be taken simply as Mr Stanley’s opinion of the Council and is not material—the sec ond part lifts the whole paragraph into a statement of a “fact” that Mr Stanley says is “well known.” In my district the Council is regarded as a respectable body of representative men, and it is believed that tbe councillors individually and collectively, honestly and earnestly do tbeir duties under considerable di sad van tages—that they have done nothing to their discredit, bat muph to the contrary. For the future if Mr Stanley expects the Kawhia public ta put any credence or value on anything h i says he must either justify bis remarks or apologise. He has no other course left him in COMMON DECENCY.