ALLEGED STREET CLOSING.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4485, 6 November 1909, Page 3

ALLEGED STREET CLOSING.

(To the Editor)

Sir,—ln your last issue I noticed Mr Robert Mackie had a short epistle making certain statements, which, for the benefit of those unacquainted with the facts, I beg to set right. I might mention that the portion of “ Princess-street” referred to by Mr Mackie, does not exist, as it was cut into sections by the Government. Thanking you in anticipation.—l am, etc., F. Hubbard.

(To the Editor)

Sir, —It appears to me that some people have nothing else to do but breed strife and discord, and it does not appear to matter how trivial or small it may be as long as they can hurt or annoy. My attention has been drawn to an article in a recent issue of the “ Mail.” I feel almost ashamed to confess that once I was a subscriber to this “ rag ” but I got so disgusted with it that I wrote the Editor to stop my paper as scon as the quarter was up, and I may just add that it was stopped at once, although the quarter paid in advance was not up, and from that time till now I have not thought it worth reading, and apparently it has not improved. A newspaper is supposed to contain news, and should not in any way lend itself to insult and falsehood, and it should not matter whether the copy is given by parson or layman, if that copy is of an insulting nature and untruthful it should be refused. The low down slander-to ever hint that Waihou residents are that mean that they struggled over such a small item is insulting, and as such I take it. It is the first time in my life of over 50 years that any man has even hinted such a thing of myself. But to the broad-minded liberal hearted gentleman, who furnished this scrap, thank*, my very best thanks for your low down insult. At the first reading I laughed heartily, but when I read betweea the lines and saw the insult offered to the most liberal class of people I have ever met, I was disgusted and ashamed. It is easy to see “ the why and the wherefore.” I suppose the informant was “ riled ” that his little plot didn’t work out to his liking. Now, for the truth, there was no such meeting of committee, although I believe there was one of the committee there. The amount quoted is also wrong, and I just wish to add I was not on the committee at all. There were six gentlemen present “ not three,” besides ladies, so the average reader will easily see how much truth there is in the article at all, but from what I can see the “ Mail ” is glad to get anything from anybody, however untruthful or nasty, to help fill its dirty fourpenny columns. I, with others, attended that meeting to appoint trustees for the organ, but with the other affair we had nothing whatever to do.—l am. etc.,

H. O. Cooper.

Waihou,