CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10195, 24 March 1911, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To The Editor.l

;;; Sir Mrs M. Grant, of Bannockbum, nTjtes iri your of March 23rd that she is surprised at Mr Eton making the statement he did at Mr Bedford's meeting on Saturday night last. I know Mr Eton as a business man of some standing in this town, and should say that Mr Eton knows better [ the business • conditions prevailing under No-License than Mrs Grant (of Ban-' ; nockburn). Mr Eton knows, and lias backbone <?nough to state the facts as he has seen them. Mrs Grant tells us that she has known educated young men sent out here to be redeemed of : what she describes as the curse. No doubt : these young men were sent out] here Jbecause>/they were to * ! / '■/*• their people at home. The people who sent them out should have known better than to-liave sent bad men here as an example to Ais. She also tells us tliat tliese young, men spent all their money on the/curse, and then asked for ja further d(>se'/of -w;hat she calls poison, and then died in a flaxbush or the river. This was entirely their own fault. Did it never strike Mrs Grant that if the people belonging to them could not reform them they were utter wasters? She also tells us that she lias heard about bluestone and tobacco being found in beer barrels. ] may , teU your correspondent that we hear* many things that are not correct. I am a colonist of nearly forty years, ami have lived in the blackblocks .most of that time, so I know the class well that she as writing/about.' I would advise Mrs Grant-to be more'moderate in ■' * her choice of words when writing on this sxibject,-as!there l is nothing to be gained by calling things' by -thejr wrong names.—l am, etc., MASTERTON".