MR HAWKINS TELLS HIS STORY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 286, 1 December 1914, Page 8

MR HAWKINS TELLS HIS STORY.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] teic, —My attention was called mis aittinoon to a report oi me Mra.ijiU jjoiOLigli Council meeting im,Jusiied m your Saturday’s issue witu Liie reining or me .town Han, on the eve of tne coining polling day. niessrs Lawrence and loiuig’s statements re tne letting ol .Hail are allege mer wrong, tuo reference to a

"second person and uo other persons.” An affidavit “and p rob a ole iegal proceedings” are all very line iuui large, but they are all ractors dragged into a question to cover up a deliberate piece of sharp practice to attempt to deprive me of the use of die Hall on the eve of polling day. At least ton days before tne 2ist No,ember last, Mr ,). Black, on ray instructions, pencilled the Hall per Mi Diamond for me. The Hall had then already been pencilled for the Becoming Officer for the 9th Decemoer, and Air .Diamond, at Mr Black s request, wrote in the diary under the date 9th December —“Mr Black, in event of Mr Reeve not taking date.' these words are in the diary now. On the morning of 21st November, when Clio election had been definitely fixed for 10th December (and therefore tne Returning Officer would not need it on the 9th) Mr C. D. Sole went to Madam Bernard’s residence, accompanied by Mr N. J. King, paid the cheque, and received the receipt. Madam Bernard, Mr Diamond, and Mr King were all present at the time, and uo reference was made either to Mr Young or any other person having pencilled the Hall; furthermore, i .lave more than once offered the Secretary of the Beforra League the use cf my platform for the Beform candidate for an hour on the evening m question if they wish it. Finally, 1. want to protest against this eviient attempt to jockey me out of my rights.—l am, etc., W. H. 'HAWKINS.