FOXTON WHARF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1100, 22 May 1913, Page 3

FOXTON WHARF.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l shall be obliged by your kind insertion of the enclosed letter, which appeared in yesterday’s “Manawatu Times,” in your next issue. The Foxton people have treated me splendidly ' in connection with the Wellington Harbour Board election and I don’t wish them to think I am ungrateful. •T have been away from Feilding for some little time. On my return I am astonished to find that in your report of a meeting of the Feilding Chamber of Commerce, held during my absence from the district, at which meeting an amendment hostile to the sending of a delegate to the proposed conference re purchase of the Foxton Wharf was carried. You state: —‘The amendment was put to the vote and supported by four members (including the chairman, Mr J. G. Cobbe). The remaining four members voted against it. The Chairman thereupon gave his casting vote for the amendment, and declared it carried. Feilding, therefore, will hot be represented at the conference.’ Your leader headed ‘Without Reason,’ in the same issue, makes my supposed delinquincy still more marked. In reply I beg to state: That I was not in the district when the meeting took place. Therefore I could not possibly have been present or have voted. I have seen the Feilding Star’s report of the meeting, which gives the name of another person as chairman, : and also states that an apology for my absence was accepted. I may further state that had I been present I should have voted in favour of sending a delegate. Trusting you will give this denial as much prominence as you gave the report.”—l am, etc., John G. Cobbe. Feilding, May 2 i st, 1913-