MR NORRIS AND THE TOWN BOARD.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 131, 3 December 1873, Page 3

MR NORRIS AND THE TOWN BOARD.

Wk Jo not hold our«lvw responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents.

TO THE EI>ITOB. Sib,—Ab Mr E. G-. Norris, in the late appeal case against the assessment roll for this district, deliberately went, out of his way to state that the roii had been "muddled" in preparation, and nbo deliberately made a misstatement, it is neceHsary for roe to trouble- you, that th,- ratepayers may know bow groundless his assertions are. When the roll was first compiled, the assessment was adjudged to be too high, and some considerable time was spent by Captain Tuuke, Mr Boded, and myself (acting a* clerk) in revising if ; ai.d it. 13 uuw, with the exception of what changes were mode on the appeal day by the Board, and th* correction of §ix or etrea clerical

errors, ai it left our hams. I oaa on }„ thiuk that it must hare bren dmng 9 wi , U o wild flight of oratory that Mr Norris ‘-aed .an rSssku calculated to make a most erroneu -.region ou the ratepayers minds. Mr Norris's r foment ?Y th,> lotte l 1 wrote to him on November 18th is untrue. In it occurs this sentence The j a i , afc u *. R,ttU5 K the 27th. ultimately fcuied to allow your appeal, and that the assessrncnl was reduced. M 9 desired, to £l5O- and further, that duenotke was given of the above in the paper next published." In the face of this information, he carried the case into Court, and endeavoured to bias ids case by a statement at variance with the iri-elnignble trmh conveyed in black and white. Corf only, knowing so well that the rating was purposely made high by the assessors Mr IS orris should not have taken an unfair advantage of the absence of the chairman of too Hoard, which was occidental, to oarrv Ida case by imparting to the Resident Magistrate wrong information.— 1 am, &c., W. I, Booth.