CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2105, 19 May 1898, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

Under no- circumstances whatever is , the Editor responsive for matter contained in correspondence ]

. / (To the-Editor.) Sir,-—I shall be obliged by your inserting a few lines in your paper, as I wish to contradict a report which some very wise, person has spread in this township* to the effect that in consequence of my having been called in to attend the late Mrs Macnicol during her illness, I am debarred from attending certain cases for a period of three months. Now, sit, this report is absolutely untrue and without foundation, and I believe that those who have spread it. have rendered them selves liable for damages upon my proving that I have lost patients through their interference. Everyone knows that in every township there are always to be fouud certain people who- know ‘everything about everything/ and who are never backward in giving, others the benefit of their vast and varied experience. I believe such people have been termed by someone ‘ m ddlesome busy bodies/ and it is ce;fcain that the harm they do is often incalculable. However, I cannot allow my practice to be interfered with in this way, and I beg to state that for my part lam free and ready to fulfil any engagements I may have made and that I Bhall expect “those" with whom I ,have made them to fulfil their part, as there is absolutely no reason for their not doing so.--1 am, etc., Gilbert T. Smith. Te Aroha, May, 1896.