TO THE EDITOR.
g IR> _In your Issue of the 12th loßt, 11 Working Man " (?) insinuates th*t Mr Walker lmpoited the " unemployed " from Ohrlotchuroh to the injury of our local men. If he was a »real honest working man he would have asoartained the facts of «ha case before insinuating a slander on Mr Walker. Not oontent with slandering Mr Walker he alao Blunders the honest and hard working fellows who worked on the Tinvrald road. He myn, In effect, that thouo really hard working fellows did not earn their very scanty pay. I will tell him and tho working men whom he slanders the real fac s of the oaae Tii3 Government offered the Ashburton Ojunty Oounoll "unemployed" free of ooet to the l<cil bodieo, and a number were sent from Ohriatchurjh. Mr Walker »nd the Mayor of Afjhburton caused inquiries to be made through the police SB to what number of unemployed were m Aehburton, and obtaining the conoarrence of the Minister of Public Works directed that aB many local men as possible Bhould be put on, g.ving a j preference ti married applicants. Surely j thla was muoh to the oredlt of Mr Walker aud the Mayor. The Tlnwald road wao so unsafe that the ritepajers were considering the propriety of etriklng a special rate for itn repair, when Mr Walker, though unasked, obtained from the Minister for Public Works * Rang of man for i'a repair.. Thia saved the working men of Tinwald, already too heavily taxed, the impoaitlon of another rate When the Government stated that there were no more funds available, Mr Walker, at great Inconvenience to himself, Induced the Minister to keep a noflicteist gang to complete the work, and inetr ucsei the overseer to retain the local men m preference to outsiders. I doubt much if the Iruttful and honest working men of aY Sh-e-'bt -(tfe'maWe^felf B W e S«E unscrupulous tactics of the Opposition 1 Theio are the fabrications circulated with the object of damaging Mr Walker. " Working Man " ought to have a little respect for ••Troth"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1663, 15 September 1887, Page 2
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345TO THE EDITOR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1663, 15 September 1887, Page 2
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