MR SIM RETURNS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 471, 6 May 1919, Page 2

MR SIM RETURNS

(To Mm Editor.)

Sin,—l must again trust to your generosity in asking for some of your valuable space in which to reply to Mr Oldfield's letter. In my letter I kept dear of personalities, but as he has not seen fit to do the same, I will close my correspondence with him in this letter, which will be as brief as possible. Mr Wily and I resigned before Mr Piggot was proposed. Mr Hamilton, before proposing Mr Piggot, in an Irishman's whisper begged others in the room to stand, and at last making a virtue of neoes. sity proposed Mr Piggot for a ssooa term, statins: that the Bucklan* branch had always given a chairman two years in office. 1 have no interns in Mr Oldfield's political ideas—the Farmers' Union platform will not allow politics to be introduced and while a member I faithfully observed its rules. The concluding sentence in Mr Oldfield's letter was hardly in good taste, and I am sure, on maturer consideration, he will be sorry he wrote it. Thanking you in anticipation.—Yours etc., J.B.SI*. Buckland, May sth, 1910