"NEWSPAPER FELLOWS."
* ~~. ■* The "editor of the ■'iS'ew' Zealand "Triad" is nothing'if not outspoken. At times he writes with -carustac satire. A,t' others he. brings the sledgehammer of Webster, and Johnston, and all the Test cf them to bear. But
he is always entertaining, and the capacity to entertain covers a. multiitude of sinjSs In the latter category is the statement contained in this month's issue of 'his paper, that ".there are gome splendid fellows with
the newspapers of New Zealand; and (there are scone mran," arrogant, flyblown, distempered, flearbitten, mongrel curs that I would cheerfully ivssist to hang if the law permitted a man to do his obvious Christian duty." Now, we do not know who, in p'M-ticuia-r, has trodden upon the "Triad-'isV pet corns; but to'employ the teriri "unongrel curs" .to a hardworking, ranscientious and genei-ally (intelligent body. of new*{paper men is (to defile the paper upon which the "Triad" ag printed, It is a minor sin, no doubt. But it is auipardonable.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10607, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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164"NEWSPAPER FELLOWS." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10607, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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