MR ARROWSMITH’S LETTER.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 August 1919, Page 4

MR ARROWSMITH’S LETTER.

1 A (To the Editor.) Sir,--—ln your paper of last Thursday Mr Arrowsmith Writes:— “In your issue of the 16th (18th) the Mayor is reported to have told the Councillors that the ratepayers had no opportunity of expressing an opinion as to whether they would have concrete slabs or asphalt on the main street footpaths.” , I made no such statement. Neither ‘did any Councillor Cr. Reid stated that the ratepayers had not had. a." chance to vote for asphalt at the loan poll—not at the loan meeting. The Councillors and the Town Clerk as well as myself, are all positive that no ‘reference was made to Mr Arrow[snlit»h’s meeting. If this gentleman; }had used the natural caution chara--ltcristic of his profession, or the prudence characteristic of himself, and had rang up the Council Chambers to‘make sure of the correctness of the report he refers to, it would have prevented him rushing into print to support an assumption based on an unsound hypothesis. As it is, his letter" Was quite uncalled for, and has open-«_».-1 {he flood gates of abuse on me from‘ anntaer diicction. This is hardly the ‘Kind of assistance an over-worked Mayor expects fronrthe borough solicitor.—l am, etc., ‘