CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 997, 10 November 1881, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY’S ADVERTISING.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib : In your last issue you devote a whole column of your paper to the denunciation of myself and my action in reference to the printing and advertising of the Agricultural and Pastoral Society. Did the article in question refer solely to myself I would take no notice of it; but as you choose to implicate the Society in the censure you so freely bestow on me, I deem it necessary to state that you have either been misinformed, or that you have grossly misrepresented facts. When your “ advertising collector ” waited on me to solicit the advertisement of the late Show I courteously declined, nor did I assign as a reason that your politics were obnoxious either to myself or to any member of the Society. You may be assured that the gentlemen elected to manage the business of the Society are quite above allowing personal or political considerations to influence their actions, and, while acting as hon. sec. to the Society, I did not hesitate toexercise a judicious economy without fear of censure.—Yours, &c., G. Matthewson, Late Hon. Sec. Sib : With 'reference to Mr. Matthewson’s letter, which appears in this morning’s issue, explaining his reasons for refusing the Standabd a share of the Agricultural Society's advertising, &c., I beg distinctly to state that Mr. Matthewson, when 1 asked him for the advertisement, said “ Mr. Webb has made himself so obnoxious politically, that 1 cannot say,” or “ I do not know.” I replied “ Mr. Webb has nothing to do with it now ; we are running it (the Standabd) on bur own account.” He finally promised to lay the request before the.committee, which would meet that evening. A day or two after this Mr. Matthewson informed me that the committee declined to insert the advertisement on tbe score of expense. Mr. Matthewson may not have intended his remarks as “ implicating the Society,” but as he Was speaking to me as one of its officers, I naturally concluded he was expressing the opinions of its members.—Yours, &c., J. Mogridge. Standard Office, Nov. 8.