CORRESPONDENCE.

Motueka Star, Volume V, Issue 295, 14 June 1904, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor. Sir: In reply to “Member’s” letter in the columns of your last issue, re Hockey Club’s ball, the party in question has been decidedly misinformed. In the first place the Club was not by voluntary subscriptions, our fcr.ain object being to secure a body of members to assure a success of Secondly, the Secretary every endeavoui to procure the and pencils locally, but ■Hug to get a price in' time we wired Wellington firm to execute the Tt *»A Lr TY&r V‘ ,? »-v SyUL \ ltrL\ o t ' Qy revealing his name and ad d g with the ■Secretary who has full power to con■ene a meeting of the committee on a Plate fixed to suit “Member's” own ■ convenience, at which he is invited to I attend. lam very much surprised to [think that a member of our club should ■wilfully make such an assertion against %jjhe committee who worked soassiduouslyXiu the club’s interest during the projgress of the ball, and further, that he /should so far forget the courtesy dues to his club’s representatives, namely thei committee, who hold office through of the members, by rushing into pr Int before consulting them, who would have furnished a satisfactory explanation without this delay and unnecessary inconvenience. I am etc , Jas. A. Wallace, Chairman.

“Betting results in moral degeneracy to all connected with it, and is injuring the community in a way that few of us realise.”—Sir Robert; Stout, Chief Justice, at the Supreme Court. Indigestion and a Positive Cure ! Curo is the registered name ot a purely herbal and highl-y concentrated liquid medicine, originally the prescription ot a celebrated doctor. Curo is pleasant to take, and quick in affbrdingrelief. Large bottles are offered at is 6d each for a short time on approval. Monev will be returned in case the medicine does not agree with you. Can be obtained at the Motueka Farmers’ Cooperative Socy’s stores “If we were to arrest every drunken man we see in the street®, the gaols of . the colony would not hold them all !” asserted a sergeant in Christchurch when asked if he arrested every inebriate. It is the pace that kills. Mr J. Forster Fraser, in his “Americans at W.ork,” looked in vain for grey headed men in the great American factories ;

and being too inquisitive to be put off withe ut an answer, his informant pointed to the cemetery '- saying, “There the} r are,”