THE ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 9 December 1914, Page 5

THE ELECTIONS.

(To the. Editor). Sir,"-In your article on tlie merits of the respective candidates you suggest that Mr Okey is indolent and indifferent. To show that he is neither I am ablo to state that during his seven years' service in Parliament, ho has never left the House Until the House rose for tha night. Again, he was never absent from a single meeting of the. County Council which he was a member for eight years. In another article in the same issue you throw the limelight, on Mr Wilkinson for his services in connection with the Opunake-Ncw Plymouth railway, and leave Mr Okey'in the dark, while the fact is that Mr Okey was moro active than Mr Wilkinson whose constituents at Opunake were not enthusiastic over the New Plymouth connection.—l am, etc,, < 0. K, ELECTOR. [We have never suggested that Mr Okey was. indolent, for we fcno\v Mr Okey is attentive to his duties, and is always to be found in his seat in the House. Also that he assisted to the fullest of his powers in passing the District Bail' ways Bill. He does not lack the desire er Bpiritj but he lacks the capacity to do justice to the position. That surelymust be obvious to our correspondent by this time. Had he the capacity of Egmont's member, il would be a different matter. —Ed.]