MR HORNSBY'S "HURDLE."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10492, 1 December 1911, Page 6

MR HORNSBY'S "HURDLE."

[To The Editor.]

Siv, — A letter -Oiafc appeared in your coOfuimmis, signed: "F. .W>. Bilrke,'* and foil* .once/ I (break my rijle of Hot taking any part in .newspaper discussions ow the eve of an ellicctioiii'. I am. consitiraiined to write

, because of the utter falsity of '>F. W. Burke's" flatter. Hi© has exactly irtevcirsed tilie position, and I can. but express' any abhorrence e*f these dirty tactics, whceh always (Wave been indulged in by my opponents just at the 'Jlasit moment. 1 'know, of course, Ay3iy itihjeise tilings are clone. Give a 'lie a start of 24 hours., a.nd it ills almost impossible to. oval-take it. lon any capacity as a* poldticiatn I lia.ve never favoured high protection, and where the prdmairy industries are concerned 1 1 have always voted to irefc.ve rtihem from any (taxation, that ii ■um.'nJJd -hear 'unjustdy or inequlitably upon' t'hem. For example, some seven or oi'gjlut yearaf ago, it was proposed to tax (the- final paymenit from dairy factories to dia'Jry taroners. The taxation officd'als declared this final pay..anent ito be a dividend. I made rep- [ resentationsi to tlie late- Mr Seddon., aind iiiitiiwlueed a deputation of rep'•.nese'intatdve dairy men to him on the Bulbjcot. He was somewhat obdurate, font pramrised .to consider, the matter. 1 foldowed up, and had the pleasure of getting the obnoxious. olaus® struck out. When the Tariff was being considered; in 1907 I was. .one of \ihmt? who defeated the pro.ppsiafl/ to tax certain dairying (machinery. iFor dicing this I .had my name put on a "black list" with some otliers of the Government Painty, Ibu that diid not deter me from doling my duty iby the primary producers!. <Mr Burke' clearly owe"s ime am. apology, if I were lii'ke Mr •Massey, I wm'ild caiffi ihim names, atnd threaten Mm with the . pains and penalties, of the law of slanidleir, but 1 ha.ve en-ly pity for the poor tool's who (permit themselvesto be miade- fins© of to "bear- false witness." I am, etc., • '

J. T. M. HOENSBY