DISCOURTESY!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3627, 22 March 1906, Page 2

DISCOURTESY!

Money is credited with working wonders, but it will never be credited with keeping the Manawatu Herald tongue-tied. To speak plain, we do not intend to further tolerate the action of one of our Borough Councillors, who, at both recent meetings of the civic body, has made pointed remarks, which even the dullest mind could observe were cast in a way concerning our representative. The Councillor in question evidently knows full well that our representative has not the opportunity afforded at the Council meetings of returning the “stab in the dark ” administered by himself. For reasons best known to himself, he elects to attempt satirical reference to the Herald. A miserable failure! Possibly it is because our views do not meet entirely with his. Be that as it may, although our representative is deprived of the chance of giving the Councillor in question ‘ ‘ a little of his own back” at the Council

table, still we are not so selfish as to deny him the columns of our paper for any grievance he may wish to expound, or controversy he may elect to indulge in. We are certainly outspoken in our remarks as to the needs _of progression, but because that is so,_ it does not infer that we bear enmity to anyone who is of different mind, and we certainly do not expect to be treated discourteously when attending Council meetings in the interests of the public. We bear the Councillor referred to no illwill, and trust that the views expressed by the Herald will not be the means of further annoying, as it has done in the past, our civic townsman.