DOCKER’S LANGUAGE.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—ln reply to Mr. Smith of the *20(11, I beg to state that I ani only a recent arrival here, and my stay in your pretty little town is temporary, and both candidates are quite unknown to me. You see, Mr. Editor, it was not party bias that made me object to the language on that occasion. If Mr. Smith suits the people of the Taranaki electorate, it is quite immaterial to me, but I think if we wish to train our children in the ordinary decencies of behaviour, Mr. Smith’s presence on a school committee seems quite out of place. I shall certainly see that my boys are not placed in any school under the dictation of Mr. Smith, and anj r mother who wants her children to be trained properly should do the same. Some of my new friends here tell me I should excuse Mr. Smith’s language and want of manners because he was a worker on the railways. Well, he could be a worker and still behave like a gentleman. I find the conductors here models of courtesy and of good manners.—l am, etc., MARY COLLINS.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1922, Page 2
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195DOCKER’S LANGUAGE. Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1922, Page 2
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