A POINT SETTLED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 7 December 1914, Page 6

A POINT SETTLED.

To the Editor. Sir, —Mr. Wilson's friends lmve been much exercised in their minds in regard to the little interjection he received at hid meeting in Uruti, Tlie same applies to Mr. Wilson evidently, for 1 have had several kind enquiries in reference to the matter, even from remote Otorohanga, where Mr. Wilson found it necessary to insert an advertisement similar to that appearing in the local papers under correspondence headings. Not being a £SO bettor like Mr. Wilson, I failed to take up his challenge when made, but, being sure of my grounds, I and with tjus object of letting your read- l ere know the real facts, I communicated < with Sir Joseph Ward on the subject, and he advised me that there is absolutely no foundation in Mr. Wilson's erroneous statement. This is just what I contended, and I ask leave to repeat that Sir Joseph Ward never said: *'lt was monstrous and disgraceful that such a huge sum should be allocated to Taumarunui electorate for back-block roading." The sum mentioned was £ 100,000, but how much of this was spent? It is said that a large amount was expended on the Turopoto road, where Mr. Wilson's chief henchman (Mr. C. Leech) resides. This is naturally a sore point with other back-blockers, who have received nothing, and they will not forget it on the 10th. In so far as following :Mr. Wilson about, time, is more valuable than spending it in this way, and if such a course suggests itself to me, why had I not gone to some of his closer meetings? What has Mr. Leech to say on .his following tactics of last election? How often did .he go to Mr. Jennings' meetings with the one object? This, of course, was quite fair—from Reform's point of view, but Liberalism did not complain through the paper. They are above that. So far as organised attempts to disturb Mr. Wilson's meetings, this is about as lame a thing as could be said, and is only a poor excuse for their dcadness. This must be explained away somehow, and the only way is to blame an interjector. One feels sorry for their position, but cannot refrain from laughing at their childishness. Poor Reform. R.1.P.—1 am, etc., THE INTERJECTOR.