THE PARA PARA GOAD COMPANY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4383, 7 April 1875, Page 2

THE PARA PARA GOAD COMPANY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of the Ist inst. there is a paragraph, the first four sentences of which are not only untrue, but the writer has gone considerably out of his way to make a most unprovoked and malicious attack upon myself in my connection with a public company. The charge of ‘'misrepresentation in everything pertaining to the Collingwood Coal and Iron Mines.” is a most mischievous violation of the truth, and I challenge the writer to establish one single iuThe exception taken by me to statements made in your journal some time ago, was justified, inasmuch as you corrected the statements when the error was pointed out by Dr. Hector, to whom I wrote calling attention to the erroneous paragraph. A charge of misrepresentation coming from such an inaccurate writer, is rather curious in its way, and might afford some amusement, were it not that such careless writing about the proceedings of a public company often leads to much mischief; the writer who can coolly assert that “statements which appeared in this journal upon the authority of Dr. Hector,” knowing, as he must well know, that ho had to alter those statements owing to their inaccuracy when pointed out by the authority he claims, can hardly be relied upon as representing things fairly. Then, again, he says, “In the report recently presented to the shareholders in the Para Para Company it is there stated that the construction of the company's tramway lifts been considerably delayed by the refusal of the General Government to lend the company some rails.” The italics are mine, and I defy him to find such a statement in the report referred to, and with that report before him it is difficult to understand how he could make such a misstatement, unless he wilfully intended to misrepresent. The rest of the paragraph is quite intelligible to the meanest understanding the General Government promised to lend rails on certain conditions, and they did not fulfil that promise. The directors of the Para Para Company, in their report, simply stated the fact.— I am, &c., M. M. Webster, Secretary to Para Para I. & C. Co. Nelson, April 5. [We adhere to the accuracy of the statements we made in the paragraph referred to. — Ed. N.Z.T.]