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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 35, 9 February 1878, Page 3

•'■■•■■ TO- TH'E EDITa*. Sißir-Wilt yoii Hndly insert this letter m your next. issuet As. Secretary and Treasurer of tlie- Terrace End Spoirfcs^l think if " patience is a' virtuenot always;, rewarafed','7 truth shouM always be-spoken when letters are written, for. the puWfr to read 1 . "When v Committee-Jnain" says 1 deny- having received the money he should ha.ye said aIX the ; monies, and; when, he says- theexpenses for erecting, platform ; prints* ing ; tilting poles ; huFdles-; greasy pole ;• and triumphal! arches were-de--ducted from the sum total promised by subscribers, aad the balance divided for prizes^ he speaks an untruih-.. V-C^m^ niittee-nian" goes on tb^say tuere- is a I balance;©? £7 15s, belonging either toihe Gemeterv Fund or the public, m the hands of some ©Be— made up of prizesnot competed for. Iffow,. if ";Coi&m\t-tee-tnan' had bad a retentive memory he would not h&xe made such an erone-.. oils statement,. and il he had come to<me for particulars before pu shiaig- im to prin t,. he would not have wasted yow valuakte paper, to say npthiiig of tfme. It has Veen said before that the Sports \rere afinancial success. Please allow me to. «on tradic t that s tatemen t, &s our- liabilities far exceed; our promised eontribuiions. Should w - Committee7man' v feel disposed to reply; I must, ask him to conSne' himself to facts, and give his name- if li^r has one.r— l am, &X 5., Edwin SitrsTDßßs, Sec. & Treas., Terrace End Sporfcs. Palmerston Noi^th, Feb. Bth, 187&