OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1940, Page 4

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

CONTROVERSIAL STANDARDS (To the Editor.) Sir, —In your paper of August 22 appear three letters re the Park Custodian. As I am here temporarily and don’t know either side of the question, I won’t comment on same, but letter No. 3 headed "Nazi Methods?” was in my opinion a masterpiece of impulsive "stupidity. It implies that your Mayor and councillors ally themselves to Nazi methods. Surely that is going too far. But to cap all, the writer himself hides under a nom de plume. After his innuendo about Nazi methods of the other fellow, he has not the courage of a Britisher to sign his name to his letter, but he sneaks behind a hedge so that no one knows who he is and slings bricks. Let him look at the methods he adopts before pointing the finger of scorn at others. I shall be in Masterton next week, and hope to read an explanation and an apology to the Mayor and councillors from him, for his unseemly and unfair innuendo. And may he sign his name to it as any Britisher would. Mastertonians should be proud of their town, its streets and surroundings and should not allow unfair criticism to go unchallenged. Hoping you will find space for this note and thanking you. —I am, etc.,

PERCY SAMUELS. Wellington, August 23.