CORRESPONDENCE A REPLY TO "FREEDOM."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10471, 8 November 1911, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE

A REPLY TO "FREEDOM."

u To TTie Editor. I

Sir, — I £ihould to d/ri&w attention to the ahswrdii/ty of "Fi-ee-diom'iSi" refeneaace to there being fbur eecond-iiaind sihops'in Master ton. I fail to- see what hearing it, lias< on license or Noiiieense. He states tihiey arse ill doing welJ. How does he know? I chaHengje the 'Statement. l,n licensed, Diannevirke, .tihree ©eoood (band sihtoßs- exist. What a pretty state .of affairs obtain sphere —a'town much smaller than. Masterton, 1 too-. In Hastings, a mm oh greater number are ito 1 be found', and I have not Iheard that Liceiise or were heQd accountable. It is a wfeJi-knowm faqb ■that where second hand dealers increase in, number, auction marts decrease. A case iiv point: Take Mae-tea-ton under license. There were three auction mart® and two second (hand .sfliops-. Nxnv we have under Nolicense orne auction, mart, aind four 'second! Ihand sliops. Then. again, while tlhere igi. a. dastinot'ioai, theme ie (practically little or no difference between an lauobion mailt and a isecond Aland isihlop. llhey foo<t)h, vend second Eiamd goodls. I fail to see wfliy Mastertoai silmikl be so gimssily irtiisrep-a-etseinfted and; maligned' for the above! Memttioflied state of affairs. Furthermore, "Freedom" and others have written and otherwise expressed th/emiseiliveisi re second hand s3iop& and second hand dealing in a general fiasihjioji. Let tihe truth, and the wihble truth oxit, and give me a dUance to justify my existence. I admire 1a man wllio signs his effusion, ihits above the belt in, a British fash-. ion, and oh avenges liis foe to something not merely making sarcastic, vague references about iMngjs. Until tlifis 1 .is done, T shall hoM, my head up with tihe next man in Masterton.— I a,m, etc., E. HODGE, Second Hhnd Dealer.