"MAN'S HUMANITY TO MAN."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 44, 2 March 1901, Page 2

"MAN'S HUMANITY TO MAN."

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-I think "Humanity" in his lotter to your re tho lute accidi-nt at, Waitar.i, is ; n error, like a good many more, that Frank Klenner was drunk at the time. His brother left; him a short time before and ho was tl en sober. When he w»s first found he was on the stivet, I b lievsi near th> curb-stone j he was then picked up and plac el in the priv te lettnr b:ix lo^by. ■ hen found (herd by the lamp-lighter, ha v ry properly gave inforimU.ioi to the police. The constab'e, wbi n he cam", took it forgra-'ted he was drunk, and, as the lecal pres* stat d, " made him as comfortab eas he could." Y«s, laid hirn down on the aspha't of th r open lobby of the Po?t Office where <he cold wind and raio of that night could, <nd did, pour on him. His brother lived only fivo minutes walk from the Post office. If he had been informad of the ca«e ho (Frank) would not have been lefb io that exposed condition till nine o'clock tho next m rning. That the license fees should be devoted to the care of drunkards, I cannot agree with " Humanity." We want the money for hotter purposes, especially in Wairara.—l am, etc., De Wet.