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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1916, Page 7

To the Editor. Sir,—As Mrs. Street Ims thought fit In report statements which will leave tin: public under a wrong impression of Hie circumstances connected witli tlie eni ployment of her sen with VI. Dimock ;r.(i ( 0., I am compelled to R" further ir.to the mutter. Sirs. Street says thill 1;<■!• late husband culled on two occasion? at the Company's oflice and did not sei me. but she does not mention that lie interviewed the sccr"t;<ry of the company, whq told the late Mr. Street very plainly that the company was not satisfled with tl;o manner in which the ton .-.as working. Mrs. Street omits to mention that Jie late Mr. Street called a third time at this office and actually did see Hie writer some weeks before he left N'cw Zealand, so that there ivas ample time for any alterations to be made. T repudiate that Mr. Street's. going away was contingent upon his position being .liven to his son. He had enlisted before Hie company was advised, and when we decided to accept Mrs. Street's son, Mrs. Street was not present at the interview, jnd the arrangement was made at the U'liite Hart Hotel. Mrs. Street was told i,f the arrangement after it had been made, and she expressed herself erateful Hint her son was to be given a trial, I claim that absolutely no injustice has been done to her. As I have already mentioned, a great deal more could be said which would make the position very clear, but a sense of propriety forbids me from entering into details surroundiner the casn. Mrs. Street mentioned that she will ignore any further discussion on the matter. Let me say that 1 at no time invited ,1 discussion, and would not even have replied to liei letters in the papers were it not foi the fact that Mrs. Street represented me as having Broken a definite promise made. That I deny, and ii Mrs. Street did not visit to have her late husband's name brought before the public in this connection, she should, have avoided introducing it in the; first instance.—l am, etc., I S. E. BARON, _ Manager- for W. BirnoCk and Co., Ltd. I