TE AROHA MATTERS

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1399, 21 June 1881, Page 3

TE AROHA MATTERS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — lii reference to your "own's" letter as it appears in your issue of the 11th in&t., t most certainly heartily agree with him when he slates that this rising district wants a resident qualified man, especially now, when scarlet fever (not scarlatina, as he erronously states) is ' so prevalent amongst us ; 'and we also have crying need of a place to bury our dead in. Very few of us could afford to have the mortal remains of the lost ones conveyed to even the nearest authorised or legal burying giouiid. These are matters which might be immediately rectified. Now, Sir, I should like to know in what manner, I have offended your "own correspondent." I have never oven spoken to him, so that I could not have snubbed him (as he certainly descives) and yet he has deliberately, and with evident malice, assailed my character by calling me a medical charlatan. In his statement, viz. : "ue have not even a ding vendor in the place just now," lie has written a deliberate falsehood. lam a. chemist and druggist, and the only one in the district. As for my being without drugs, that also is false. In your " own's ' eyes it is a crime not to be able to' affoi'd a large fashionable shop and a stock worth £1000— such as might be Seen i m some la^ge town. How' doe 3 lie know \i hat stock of drugs I possess ? or what does he know of my capabilities m effecting cures in cases of sickness ? Befoic he makes such false statements he ought to make strict inquiries,' for hia own sake, and not leave himself open to be called a perverter of the truth. I may state that I do not profess to be a medical man. lam simply a chemist, but will never, in the absence of certificated practitioner, refrain fiom ghing my neighbour the benefit of my medical experience, which I can say with' out boasting is larger and more varied than that of manyanM.D. When I do anything wrong it will be time enough for him to go for me ; even then he had better stick to the truth. T. W. Hector. Te Aroha, June 16th.