Mr Massey's Visit to Pukekohe.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 289, 3 July 1917, Page 2

Mr Massey's Visit to Pukekohe.

| To the Editor] Sir,—lt was with much pleasure I read Mr Allan's letter re the above in your last issue, and hope that it is not too late for the convenors of the banquet to reconsider the matter. Our politicians are continually urging the people to practice economy, and rightly so. I venture to think that if the Hon. Premier had been asked what form his welcome should take, he would have been in favour of a public gathering on the lines suggested by Mr Allan. I take it that the charge of 15s per head is necessary to cover the cost of alcoholic liquors to be consumed at the banquet Mr Massey at his welcome in Auckland spoke in high praise of the King, with which we all agree, but I ask you, Mr Editor, would it not be honouring our King more by following out his expressed wishes and therefore dispensing with the use of alcoholic liquors at all public functions during war time, and so practising economy, instead of talking so much about it.—lam, etc., E. NEAL. Buckland, July 2nd, 1917.