CORRESPONDENCE
AN .UNFAIR ATTACK. [To TheT'lior.)
gir, xour sao-ieatler of yesterday's. issue, making what seems an \uimanly attack upon me as a candidate for Parliament, was brought under my notice to-day. 'Do you think it a fail;/ British, action to make such an unjustifiable attack upon a. man without stating, a single action or utterance of his in sup- • port? As a public man, and one who has. myself, given hard knocks, (always above the belt) I never cry out when the bricks come my way m open combat. Your attack, carrying the .weight and influence of your widely read journal, seems to me to bj grossly unfair. Had the editor, over hi* own name, made the attack I could deal with it on-even terms. I make this protest as oneßritisher to another; and leave the matter there. I am, etc., _,...,., • W.H.HAWKINS.
.(Mr Hawkins does not-suggest in what respect our criticism of his > candidature was.,unfair. We stated he had uncontrollable bias. He does not deny it.—Ed. Age.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 5
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167CORRESPONDENCE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 5
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