MR POOLE AND WAIHI.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 318, 3 June 1911, Page 5

MR POOLE AND WAIHI.

ALLEGED INACCURATE REPORTING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waihi, Last Night. In reference to the reported aspersion cast upon Waihi by Mr. Poole, M.P., the local organising secretary of the NoLicense League, has received a letter from Mr. Poole stating that the report in the Invercargill Times of the speech at Invercargill was inaccurate. THE PAPER'S EXPLANATION. Invercargill, Last Night. In reference to the statement by Mr. Poole, M.P., that in regard to "his references to Waihi recently that he was m'tSroportcd by the Southland Times, that paper says:—"Mr. Poole was reported to have said: Waihi at one time was a queer place, and it was safe for a woman to walk the streets there. The expectoration was dreadful, and the rudeness was rampant. Under no-licenst such abhorrences had vanished, and now Waihi was one of the cleanest and prettiest towns in New Zealand, and was as safe as Invercargill in re-affirming no-license at the forthcoming elections. Our reporter maintains that this is an accurate account of what Mr. PoW said, except that he mentioned- that the danger to women was at night. Our reporter also states that Mr. Poole continued to cast a serious"reflection on a member of the Waihi bank, which, if published, would have laid the paper open to a charge of libel."