CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 306, 4 June 1915, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

J A CORRECTION. j To the Editor. Sir, —Would you kindly allow me space i to correct an error in an article supplied to you by your Carrington Road correspondent, in your issue of 2lith ult. hi referring to the excitement caused heroone evening by the non-appearance of a lady who had taken a stroll into the bush late in the afternoon, it is apparent your correspondent must have been misinformed. In the first place, the lady was not found "perched" in the fork of a tree, nor had she "gone to roost for the night," as your correspondent so gallantly puts it. Also, the. "poor hungry man's" dinner was quite ready for him (prepared by other hands) had he wished to wait and partake of it before going in search of his wife. Naturally her family were alarmed when she failed to appear before dark, as the night threatened to be wet, and the river banks are very steep and dangerous in some places, it is very in 1 daylight, to cross the river, except at ' certain places, and absolutely useless to ' try and do so when darkness has fallen. ' Tn any, case, I fail to see the necessity ! for anyone to ridicule a la-dy for failing 1 to find f ''<■ way out of a large, trackless t piece of bush in the gloom of evening. ' The same thing might happen to anyone; ' perhaps, if your own correspondent were '■ placed (with as little knowledge of the ' bush as the lady) on the same spot at ; the. same time of evening, he would prot ibably not have arrived home much in ! advance of the lady, I think your cor--1 respondent could not have been among I 1 the searchers. I would advise him to 1 spend his time more suitaibly than writ- ! ing to your valuable paper, as writing 1 does not appear to he in his line of ' business. Perhaps if he were "perched in a fork of a tree," and "left to roost t for the night" he would gather wisdom and refrain from publicly ridiciulinn- one for being so unfortunate as to lose one's way and ran around in a circle (about a three-mile circle) a few dozen times. 3 One is liable to become dizzy when run--3 liing around so fast. —I am, etc., 3 ONE OF THE SEARCHERS.