MR COURTNEY IN REPLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 88, 3 May 1901, Page 2

MR COURTNEY IN REPLY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—For days I h ive been too busy to reily to 'ho ridiculous stafr mou's in your issues of TarsrJay i:rid Wednesday us to the ur employed. As evo.yorw knov.s, if frny man or lid is billing lo work hi can git plenty of it a*, rcmunfrAti'e wages, as jou justly remark in your foo'.nofce tj ench letter. I was p'ea*ed to see the letv r signe I " O'd Ojlonitt" in this m-irr.injj's psp r, anl for tie sake of the l.id Thomas' clniacter I must inform "Odj Cobnist" that the boy is a go d lad, I and bas no idea of re urnin# Home, »nd that he bas been c-fl'erad a go-id | p!a eatbe tt pay with a respected ! st tiler, whose narno I seod you in con-j fi'enee ; but he pr fer-<'o stay whwe he is wi h Mis. Or ffin i i Vfa'e Ro;d, who has b en liku a mother to him, an! wh ehe ; s as w 1 roi'el s any l»d n el wish to b•, and uher> lie is saving money and putting it. iu the P< st Offi e Savings K.iuk. The labou ers of Plymon'h neol not fce afraid of any hirnri I will d> t'em if I bring out ea'et* who f or a ih>rt titre s ek cm|.loymeot. I will a!fo bri-gout men with m>ans who will give ompl yment, and should I b I succe sful in ii,du;ing moo of m'aigl to stars the lmnufac ur* o' p per frocu our thousands of acres of timber tha l aie now only c .nsura- d in smoke, I will benefit the whole Jf I csu'd have spared the time th s af'erno n, Mr Editor, [ wo d i with pi' asu-e have driven you out to sao 'he lid Thomas, and the 1 you could havo judged as to how much reed tl ere h.s teen for inteifer-n e by meddlesome people in the kd's afl'aiis.—Yours, e c., W. C'ouhT.vey.

P.S.—I leivfi to-night to pin t! o Mn'iroa which leases Aixkla- tl on Mond y. New Plymouth, 2nd