OPINION: A mate of the Hound's has pointed out a key fact missing from the letter to the editor, in the last issue (June 21), heavily criticising yours truly for having a crack at the latest Beef+Lamb NZ overseas junket - or 'fact finding mission' to the EU and UK.
This old mutt's informant advised him that the writer of this letter - one Scott Gower - is not just some run-of-the-mill 'concerned farmer', but, in fact, the current Western North Island director on the Beef+Lamb NZ board.
According to the editor of this noble and fearless publication, Mr Gower never made this declaration on his letter to the editor.
Of course, everyone is within their right to write a letter of complaint.
However, is it not somewhat nebulous and less-than-honest for a current director of a farmer-funded organisation to write such a letter - without making such a declaration?