MORRINSVILLE SCHOOL TREAT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 354, 27 March 1889, Page 2

MORRINSVILLE SCHOOL TREAT.

I To the Editor.] Sir, — Will you kindly grant me space in your columns to contradict the statements made by your Morrinsville correspondent re annual picnic, which should have come off on 6th March last ; had it not been for tho interference of certain parties who were not authorised to conduct the affair it certainly would have taken place. Wherever your correspondent obtained his information he was misinformed. I would strongly advise him in future to asceitain the truth, and not rush headlong into print with assertions he cannot verify-. I have no desire to occupy your valuable space, as it car* most Jifcely be put to better account. I would not have taken the trouble to answer your correspondent's letter but for the manner in which bespeaks of the School Committee- here, at whose request I send this reply. lam instructed to aiate that ample funds are in hand and several ladies have kindly offered their assistance, more especially since the true state of affairs have been explained. The picnicis not knocked in the head as "our own correspondent " remarks, but is comingoff | very sbortlyas soon as provision can bemade. In conclusion I wish to state that I could, if I thought worth while, comment on the different statements made by your correspondent and contradict them ; but I agree with the majority of the Committee in stating that there is not a particle of truth in the assertions made by your correspondent. Hoping you will have the kindness to give publicity to this letter, and give " our own correspondent " a hint not to wash any more dirty linen through the columns of a widely circulating newspaper, — I have, etc., Geo. Smith, Chairman Morrinsville School Committee. Moir.'nsville, March 21st, 1889.

[to tub editor.] Sir,— l am very curious td hedr the name of the lady who promenades our etreets and domain, carrying a gentleman's hunting crop and accompanied by a ferocious bull dog, which fristens on to any unoffending dog who has the misfortune to conic in his way. * On Friday afternoon last I saw him (the bull dog) seize another hy -the throat, and after shaking him well bin gentle mistress addresses the by-slanders thus : " Why don't some of you men take him off, you are stronger than I am ;" and when, in-response to her request, a gentleman, at the risk of being bitten by the brute, shakes him off, this courteous lady and her pet went on without even a civil " thank you, sir." — I am, etc., Obskrver. Te Aroha, March 25th, 1889.