My Dear "Spike,"—I write more in sorrow than in anger. As a former Editor of your columns, former Assistant-Editor, former Secretary and Vice-President of the Students' Association, and once even the Librarian of the Heretics' Club, I feel that the letter headed "The New Fascism," appearing in your June number, is an undeserved sock-dologer.

I do not propose to deal at length with your indictment; it is true that neither my partner nor I have any confidence whatever in the New Zealand Labour Party, but we are not unacquainted with the writings of John Milton. (Indeed, I kept my first year's terms largely by the aid of "The Age of Milton"—and Professor Mackenzie.) As for trampling Truth in the mud, that is not a periodical I either read or subscribe to, as I much prefer "The London Mercury;" if my partner occasionally glances at "Truth" it is solely on account of its financial column.

While we shall for the present withhold the issue of a writ, you will of course understand that this letter is written "without prejudice."——Yours faithfully,