REPLY TO DR. MONCKTON.

Kumara Times, Issue 2609, 16 January 1885, Page 3

REPLY TO DR. MONCKTON.

[to the editor.] Sir—Allow me to say a few words in answer to Dr. Moucktou's crying letter in your issue of yesterday. Dr. Monckton complains that he has been treated very badly ; but he forgets that he has brought it all upon himself by his own ungentlemanly behaviour to persons who had occasion to seek his professional assistance. Had he been content to perform the duties for which he receives his salary, without insulting and annoying those who require his assistance, and endeavouring by such conduct to increase his own private practice, he would not have received the treatment he complains so bitterly about. There are many persons (ticketholders) who meet with injuries who do not wish to go into the Hospital, but require out-door treatment; at the same time they have a right to expect that they will be treated with civility from those whose duty it is to attend to them. They pay for the privilege which the institution affords, and do not, nor will not at any time consider themselves under any compliment to Dr. Monckton or any other doctor performing the duties of the Hospital. It be well for Dr. Monckton or any of his friends to remember that there are as many respectable and well-educated men following the occupation of mining as there is engaged in business ov professional pursuits. The miners as a body are the most honourable, generous and open-hearted class of any community, and will not quietly submit to be imposed upon and sneered at by the creatures who fatten and thrive upon the fruits of their labour.—l remain, sir, yours respectfully, H. Hows. Westbrook, Jan. 15, 1884