FAIR PLAY IS FAIR PLAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1979, 1 May 1885, Page 2

FAIR PLAY IS FAIR PLAY.

To the .Editor.Sir,—Mr Payton seems determined to bring my name before the public, Ido not übjeyt to it when lie confines himself to facts, hut .when lie makes use of such expressions as lie has dono in his letter of to-day, I think it is quite timoto reply to him, He says m that letter, "everybody is pleased with the oval except Messrs Reese, Hogg, and Ginlwood." However much MessiH Reese and Hogg may object to the oval, I think it apiece of presumption to state that 1 am of the same opinion, Neither in public nor in private have I given Mr Payton justification to make such an assertion. Again, he says, " I am satisfied that the efforts of Messrs Reese, Hogg and Girdiwodbo push the Park back instead of. forward, will not be endorsed by the. people of Masterton," Mr Payton cannot prove either from word or deed of mine that I intended to do any such thing. He must acknowledge that he pursued his personal opposition on purpose to injure my prospects of the. contest. 1am,&0,, T.P. GIKDWOOD. Masterton, April 29th. [We have toned down several sentences in Mr GirJwuod's letter, without altering the sense, and believe that now the elpctipn is over, he will approve of it in its niQdj(ie.d fop-Ed, W.D.] '