PARSONS AND POLITICS.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 517, 23 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

PARSONS AND POLITICS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I notice in your issue of November 21at., a letter signed " R.J.," in which he atates that the gentleman placed in charge of the Ngaruawahia Wesleyan Church, " is about the only absolutely silent and apparently indifferent individual on electioneering in our district, ■nd I might safely challenge the whole electorate to produce either man or woman to whom he has ever mentioned either candidate as such." There are other ways of electioneering than mentioning names. Has " R.J" seen a publication headed the Waikato Federal, which bears the following at the bottom : —" Printed for the proprietor, Samuel Potts, of Waikato, by A. E. F. aud A. H. Gilbert, of Auckland, trading as Gilbert Bros., at their printing works, 25, High-street, Auckland." This paper contains a series of puffs of Dr. Hosking, advertises the dates of his meetings aud has a long article, compared with the size of the paper, on " proportionate giving." This articles gives colour to the suggestion that the Samuel Potts, of the Wesleyan Church, Ngaruawahia, and the Samuel Potts, of the Waikato Federal, are identical.—l am, etc., W. J. Ngaruawahia.