A CORRECTION.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 65, 25 May 1878, Page 3

A CORRECTION.

•QQL TH» BWTOB.

Bib,-t-A statement m your paper of hit S»turday has been poiuted out to me to fcl>e effect that I have forfeited; my seat m the Borough Council by absence. This is untrue, and I am informed that the subject has m np> wajr been before the" Council. If yo,^ had. taken the trouble to report the I proceedings of the Council, you would then have learned that my absence was cauaed by and that I sent aft apology. I cannot help thinking Ijhat such reports would be more interesting to your readers than unfounded statements about individual counciUpra.— l am, &0., w :^. : s i ' Gbo. P. Bob.

' [We sincerely regret that the statement made should have given, suph offence to I Mr Roe, and we assure him m all sincerity j. that we had not the slightest intention of doing so. We are quite aware that we are ' not infallible, and whenever we make a m* 8 * take we w^bbe found most wjflicg to correct it,. Had Mr Boe been satisfied to contradict the paragraph, and refrained from dictating to ua what our duty should be, he would with equal certainty have secured the correci tion, aa we should hav,e taken his' word without ouestipn, As Mr Roe, however, has thought fit to, adopt a peculiar tone, we ! may inforjn hiea that we hare taken a trouble which w;e otherwise would not m order to test'liis /statement, and we fiiid no record on the. borough minute-book of the lett^ of apolpgy, but we ha.ye discovered that there have been LZ meet iuga of the Council, nnd that Mr. Hoe ha^ been present at 7, the Ipst being m January last. But although we hare been unalile to find the minute of apology, we do hot doubt Mr ltoe'a uiuleuieu^. We hare no desire, to «cc Mr Roe forfeit, or even resign^ his seat, and as he has now displayed so, much vitality,, we trust, should we act upon his ad j vice, to see him m t)tv\ place from which lit :. twi betmo lon^'a stirangjer.-rJEp. M. T.^