AN EXPLANATION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1335, 28 July 1883, Page 2

AN EXPLANATION.

[to the editor.] Sir, —In your issue of the 26th, you insert a paragraph re a topic that seems to have an extraordinary interest to certain members of the Press, viz : the appointment of myself as agent to “ Mutual Life Association,” and while thoroughly coinciding with your remark to the effect that you fail to see where Mr Brown’s proceedings in the matter came under the category of “ An Insurance Agent’s Dodge,” I cannot allow the assertion made by the inventive gGnius of your stall' “ that I applied to Mr Brown for agentship in his cince, and was refused,*’ to pass without contradiction, such a remark being diamctricaPy opposed to facta, as the case stands thus—While in the employ of the Government I was aware that Mr Brown would decline to give me an appointment, as such conduct would be breaking the etiquette and rule that exists between Insurance. I therefore, applied to him in writing, having before resigned Government position, my services were accepted. And though possibly, 1 am open to censure for “ ratting ’’from the Government to Opposition benches, I m dntain, that in justice to myself I am entitled to a contradiction of the statement that my services were refused by the “ Mutual Life Association.” While bearing not the slightest animosity to the said inventive genius, 1 shall feel it incumbent, the first opportunity that oilers, to take his “ life.” With apologies for monopolising such an extent of your valuable space.—l am, &c., The much Mutualated Mutual Insurance Agent.