CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 16, 17 December 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

'V-. •■--■:: ..>- : -. •; ' ;>■»<;, '^-i : - j •.'••j'fr.',''i<: •■<- »rien«Hy Societies' Fe.te./' ■ V l (: ';'..'.v i-:;;; 'j. '■■->'< •-. i\ ■ .•A\<ru < {%O. THE EDITOR. OP, THE STANDARD.) '^ S^r,-^lsawin'tne Times' ofjSaturdajr that by special instruction of the Com- J ( m'ittee>the.omcMf handicaps, $c, appeal .; m. the -Times dnly.'' i .l. see the: Standard : ne^erjtiheless.^ But iwhy,-Sir,-was such a distinQtionjnj^e,?; {Have the Cqnimittee,the power to deal ih/thisar-" bitrary, way ? j Or wyp^spg tMj&r Save! 'the 'powerVl' asK is it discreet! to make these distinctions ■ between two riejvs.v \ papers published ih iim place. Is 1 uot "the c6m)a^itteQ f anxlb t tis jtoi gtvfei.flift mattersiin conneblaon with "the! sports as widetpubliditx aa ;i px)asihler?{ jldo not' believe that /the Friendly i Societiei jWilli^t ftllr^pdpr&B (i %ia action of the Committee. . Why putihsHifchem in'dne pap^r only ? ""Why not let bdthipapers Tiaye them? I hear it is the Siecrefia^g doings.. But .he has no right, m |my .opinion, to .influence the committe to do 'such a thing. 'The 1 Standard hassfiewii every possible desire to assist the Sports IPe'te;' and' make them success ; yet this narrow personal feeling is allowed to-gb-i trude. I hope no other sports or public committee.will- follow the .«xampjer; oetj>: which* I amsiire is' very di'stasijeful to the 'puiiliC Speaking for myself I nev4r fheard such. a thing before:.:, il .suppose the proposal must have emanated m the first place from some, connected with' the Times ; but. how"foolish of the Committee .to act m ' such a manner. .-. I hear two or" three of them feel some'whatj tishamed of the position m Which they bays' placed themselves. If it a saying of -expense it -would! have been' quite % different; itljin?;- ;but' simply. W pe^eni the reader^. of. the StanpjAbp, ,navihg the news,' is sopiething that^.l, canriqt undßrstand at all. I have writp ten at greater leqgth' Utim I '^teiiQm,, but hope you will 'find room for my, let- : r terrr^I arn^ »&o., ••'- '' ;<il ' • ;i| ' r -'-'^ r> : ' . \ s \,t .; One or the Public, ■; Dec. 10. „ . •;: , :,;■'■ . 'j ';.;■ -. >•■...'■ " . ..':'i.i/i -„■ : ■■>.<!! <}■■ .-