PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THEIR DUTY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3723, 21 June 1883, Page 3

PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND THEIR DUTY.

[To TnE Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sin, —I have noticed the letters, locals, kc, that havo lately appeared in your columns, and which have ansen out of the information laid by the Inspector against Dr. do Lisle, and I am led to believo the whole of the uupleasantuess connected therewith has been caused through a want of thought on the part of Mr Black as to what is due to the proprietor of any premises, though probably not stated in the Aot under which Mr Black laid the information. Corporation officials, like many others clothed with a little brief power, forget to treat others as they would wish to be treated. How many are there among us who would not feel annoyed to find a strange person prowling about our 'promises' without having first intimated that they were acting in their official capacity P If this were done I believo Very few persona who have an idea of what is right and wrong woidd object to a visit from an inspector of nuisances, knowing full well that if they objected such persons had the power to enter upon their premises. I am led to make the above remarks, as I saw by the rpporfc of the case that the doctor had used something like a threat of what he •would havo done had he been about when Mr Black went into tho yard whore tho nuisance Was stated to havo existed, which threat would not likely have been made had the inspector gone about his duty in a different planner. It is not long since the.

premises in the town were visited by persons (who had, I suppose, full power) whoso business it was to make a plan of all buildings in the borough, and I well remember how (I may say impudently) they, without any intimation to the householders, walked about the premises, and they might easily have been taken for detectives searching for stolen property. Hoping the above remarks will give a hint to our local officials to use more discretion in going about their duties, and to do to others as they would wish to be done by, —I am, &c., Impartial. June 21st, 1883.