JOHN HALE IN REPLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 2 December 1914, Page 3

JOHN HALE IN REPLY.

(To the < Editor.) I Sir—}fr Benoni White still writes M casting reflections on me and the bring- ' ing up of my children, and also those in my employ; not being content at interfering between me and the County Council, a grievance that had' nothing what- ' ever to concern him. Now, Mr White, play the game fair, a a you suggest. If i you were so wrapped up in the road • foreman, could you not wait until the i chairman visited my road frontage, and gave his report as arranged, without nil your swashbuckling methods? We find ; Mr White slapping up against a whitewashed wall, giving every provocation by his writing, with his malicious and slanderoiis statements as regards the young people of the district. Does he think for one moment, wielding his pen in the manner he does to the press, as regards them, he is going to rule them? "Not much"; and let me tell Mr White I am the ruler of my household, not him. He need not bother his brain about them becoming ruffians. If he has any specific charges to make against them, ho. has got the proper course in law to take. He must not expect them to treat him with the kindly feeling a neighbour should be treated with, after all his swashbuckling and tantilismg nature towards them. Mr White will learn to know young people "are young people" if he has not already learnt. He has also advanced another step in attacking tliem as shirkers.Well, Mr White, kindly explain to their satisfaction? Mr White goes on to say, if I wish a regular ducted inquiry into our grievances, let' me arrange a "simple and impartial honorary tribunal, before which he will answer any relevant questions, with all desired publicity. Mr White, so much for your side-tracking. Did we not have a chance to have all the supposed grievances, barring the County Council affair, set-1 tied? I was defendant, he the plaintifl. A defendant cannot withdraw a charge. Mr White did not see fit to answer my questions through the pres3, especially who and what was the cause of all the. trouble. He evidently thinks silence is the best part of valour here, yet he still Tants in his own way for having pub-

licity given to our grievances. To nave our' Mayor of New Plymouth lteing devoid of his two guineas for the Patriotic Fund, I now offer a yearling Jersey heifer, providing Mr White give the same, or equivalent in cash as proceeds of sale, f to he sold at Mr Newton King's Havmarket yards, December 5. Now, Mr" White, show your patriotism and help to swell the Mayor's fund. Furthermore, if Mr White and his confederates can bring any charge against those in my employ or any of my family, as regards insulting and molesting residents in the district, I am willing to donate i another five guineas to the Mayor's fund. Mr White' talks about drastic actions I having to be taken to deal with- the | children. Did ho and his confederates I not r-et two nii-mhin'a of the j.olusa sent to lay wait, to entrap these SQ.-callcd I larrikins? But what did they• '■'s | ing their Bchooltime rhymes. | gays I seem to think

funsivinesa, whilst I had repeated and reliable assura*ce of such. Not so Mr White. On receiving from him and his confederates complaints of misbehaviour, I made enquiries from residents in the vicinity, and along the road to the school, and found his complaints frivolous. Probably my son, and tho/M in my employ,, whosfe ages wwge from 19 to 25 years of age, may have called out to Mr White and aslied him whether he had any more tales to run up to the Mangorei School with, or to get up the Mangorei road, and hide in the hedges. Surely a man should not be insulted and ashamed to be told of his own actions. These young men have more manliness in them than to insult residents. Of course, Mr White is beating behind the bushes, when he calls them i-uflians. I quite agree with your correspondent's ("Arriett") views. Five minutes in the open would grant him what he rightly deserves. Perhaps Mr White would not mind me publishing his and his confederates' volume of correspondence, I and the members of my family have received, until he promised before the 'Magistrate to refrain from addressing any letters .to me or any of my household. No doubt, Mr Editor, they would make very interesting reading, and show that a man looking for trouble can always find it. I think, Mr Editor, it is really time to come to a close, or it may probably be affecting his mental aberration. Now, Mr White, draw out the residents, with proof, who have been insulted and molested, and add another £5 to the Mayor's Fund. Thanking you for your valuable space.—l am, etc., J. HALE. [This correspondence, which has already gone too far, must now stop.— Ed.]