THE WAITUI CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1916, Page 3

THE WAITUI CASE.

To the Editor. Sir, —In briefly replying to Mr. Simpson, let me inform him that everybody in Waitui knows the cirsumstanees I was placed in. It was a case of either get help or tackle 31 cow» single-haw' edj ate tliat everybody (wiiti tits

tion of the person from whom he got his "reliable" information) was pleased that I was able to get help when I so urgently needed it. After all, what ha,ve I been guilty of? Simply this: I employed a man who was temporarily unfit for military service but who has since recovered from his unfitness and enlisted, and for doing this Mr. Simpson thinks ho is justified in publishing throughout Taranaki that my patriotism is of a very low order.—l am, etc., S. S. FAG AN. " Waitui, May 0, 1910. To the Editor. Sir,—lt appears lam the bird of passage lately employed by .ur. S. S. Fagan, of Waitui, referred to in your paper. I would like to state I have not flown to a new perch to settle, but have returned to my own district and have enlisted for active service. I, like a lot more of the Taranaki boys, am quite willing to lay down my life for my country. Perhaps Mr. Simpson has not got any sons of his own to go away, and that is why he is so good at finding other people's fault, but ten to one he could find enough to do if he changed the subject, and helped some of the residents of \>aitui and Ingle wood to get rid of some of the blackberries, and then there would be no occasion for birds of passage to settle there.—l am, etc., A. THOMPSON.