HIDE AND SEEK.

Otaki Mail, 7 May 1923, Page 3

HIDE AND SEEK.

To the Editor. Sir, — The election news is stale and "Big Ben” strikes again. Conveniently for hiiß.self he charges me with rushing into print. Ho is suffering from absent memory as it was himself who first rushed the “Mail” office as funders are award. “Big Ben, ’ you contradict yourself on this subject rather openly. I can produce witnesses to prove that my utterances on election night concerning the staff were in accord with my letter, therefore you again show your unreliability by stating that which is untrue. Your next statement, viz., but I presume he is like others ‘changes his colour frequently.’ In answer to that statement I say it gives me pleasure to know that you only presume. Yes, thank you for trying to be truthful. If your intellectual faculties were not dull yeu would know that a man who has courage of his convictions, or mind, or opinion of bis own, doe 3 not need to chaDge his colour. You arc in hiding, and if your excuse for so doing is that you are not seeking notoriety (mind, you are not in London) why not meet me openly as a nan should? Tne sooner Editors of newspapers adept tne same measures as the Otaki Chamber of Commerce regarding anonymous letter writers, who are mostly ashamed to be known, the better and fairer for everyone concerned. . E ‘S Bea” can prove to me he is a man, mean a straight-forward man, and I am open for any conviction and wi.i give him the benefit of any doubt. I wnl hand him my credentials in black and white, written by gentlemen holding tins highest positions in the City of Wellington. also references from the various racing clubs in New Zealand, except Otaki, which I did not require. My integrity has n’ever been doubted except in Otaki, and then only by an ignoramoas ana others of his calibre, probably the others as mentioned fey Big Ben."” How many men have lived and died "not understood!”.— I ant- etc., W. H. BOWDEN-