Correspondence

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 22692, 4 August 1903, Page 2

Correspondence

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In answer to ‘ Eemedy’s ’ letter I must remind him of a vulgar, but true oid saying, ‘lt a dirty bird that fouls its own nest’ I have been in Te Aroha for some time, and was struck by the absence of the language in the streets. Having been all over New Zealand, and at present doing nothing, I walk about a great deal, and I venture to say I have heard more horrid oaths while walking down Queen Street, Auckland, than I have heard on a goldfield. I admit it is a dreadful habit, a low foolish one too. 1 wonder i£ ‘ Eemedy’ would put his hand in his pocket to provide some national amusement for the young fellows ? Was ‘ Eemody ’ ever young ? 1 Eemedy ’ calls on the one poor policeman to be in all places at oncf*. As for calling on the clergymen to act as amatuer constables is absurd, they are quite hard worked enough as it is. Now for the drink question. A leading medical man in one of the largest cities in New Zealand told me that after the law became so stringent in regard to Sunday trading, that he had seen more drunkenness on Sundays than he had seen all his life; he also said that when men could go openly with their jug or bottle and get their dinner beer, they were satisfied, but they could not do so, they took in such a large supply on Saturday night that it generally ended in a big drunken bout The doctor in question had just left a case where a drunken son cut his mother’s head open, and thejdoctor deplored the big drink bill of Saturday night. The dtink question is going 10 breed a race of deceitful liars. We have a floating population of young fellow away from all their own people, working, in the back block through rain and cold, no wonder they get reckless. Stil I fail to see where the christanity comes in to brand the whole community for the bad behaviour of thefenr If the men and woman of beautiful Te Aroha would love neighbours a little and cpase to impute evil one to another this place would bean Eden.—l proudly call myself. A Maorilander.