CORRESPONDENCE.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves resjxjnsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents]. :o: TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I see by last night’s issue of your paper a letter signed “ Old Boy.” I should like to know, if it is a fair question, what “ Old Boy ” has to do with the Gisborne School Concert. Ido not think it concerns him in the least, whether the whole of the programme is carried out by the children attend - ing the school or not. Hoping that “Old Boy ” will mind his own business next time, I remain, etc., Young Boy. CAPT. TUCKER’S PTTITION RE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE WITH POLICE. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Yesterday afternoon a petition was handed to me (to sign) by Mr P. E. Richardson, on behalf of Capt. Tucker, praying that the Government would make enquiries into some forgery case. Now, Sir, on the petition being handed to me, and being informed that there was a blank line reserved for me and another for Mr E. tf. Ward, I informed Mr P. E. Richardson that I would sign, but with a remark that I strictly objected to the petition and its object. I did so with the above remark, and eventually I received a letter from Mr P. E. Richardson stating that I had acted ungentlemanly and injured him financially te the extent of £3. If I did so lam sorry, but one thing I cannot see what good would come out of such a petition? It expresses a wish that inquiries be made into some forgery case, but does not state who committed it. If Capt. Tucker has got a just cause for complaint, why not take steps in the R,M.’s Court, and have it decided there. I should like to be informed by Capt, Tucker who is the individual referred to, that is considered by him guilty of forgery? What document has been forged ? When was it forged ? Whose name was forged ? And if there is sufficient evidenae to convict ? If so let the person guilty be punished by the person aggrieved. Why drag the public into signing a document referring to a subject they know nothing of? A police officer should if he be conscientious, never act contrary to justice for either Governor or Government; if he does so, he is disobeying his superior and dishonoring the obligation taken by him when joining the force.—Yours, etc., E. P. Joyce-