The Premier makes a Corection.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2103, 14 May 1898, Page 3

The Premier makes a Corection.

The following letter appeared in the ;' " last issue of the Observer Sir, —ln your last week’s issue, you drew a comparison as between the financial position of the late Sir Harry Atkins to and his Ministers and myself and colleagues, and you allege I am worth some forty or fifty thousand pounds. Your statement is absolutely Incorrect, and the inference you wished ,io create,. , namely* that owing to my official position I had amassed wealth is an insult undeserved by me at your hands. The facts are : Stripped of my present positions, I should hot he called upon to pay either Income or Tax. Further to as well off as I was tho clay, I took . office. So much spoils of office. Like the thi&£=3?cemierß have preceded me \X. am not overburdened with this world's goods. The • sacrifices made my family and I can bear without demur* but my honour, the pte remnant remaining, I i«©l--.constrained to protect. Humour was ever a lying' jade, and-, haying based ‘ ycur' u n call 1 ed> for and Unmerited.as sertion upon such a rotten foundation, L call upon you, in the-r interest of . firmest and fair journalism*' to make - ihe necessary correction.—Yours, etc., /y. I;■' r- i E. J. Sedoon.