BURGESS' LETTER.
TO THE EDITOR OT THE AKAROA MAIL,
Dear Sir, —Whilst agreeing in the main with the tone of " Burgess" letter still I cannot endorse the unqualified praise which he so liberally besprinkles the Mayor with. I contend that " praise should be given where praise is due " and whatever " praise is due " the Town Clerk is the man that deserves it. He it is who has "evolved order from chaos," and whatever business has been done business-like he has been the instigator and has carried it out. To copy the "Sundowner's" peculiar style! Did not the loci poet (?) refer to the Town Clerk when he wrote.
" I am the Mayor, and the council too,
And boss o'er the Engineer, I sets tb?m straight at the paltry rate Of a hundred odd a year.
Yours, &c, CHAD.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 136, 6 November 1877, Page 2
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137BURGESS' LETTER. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 136, 6 November 1877, Page 2
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