HARBOR AFFAIRS.
I (To the Editor Gisborne Timeflj I Sir,—H-a-s h epells " hash," a very nioo I avliolo of diet constituting tho mainstay of I a first-class boarding-houso, but a very I unsavoury word when it has to bo applied Ito 000 of our looal bodies. In tho first I Instanoo tho Harbor Board created unI neoeesary billets, appointing throe men to I oarry out imaginary work, that, if really I required, two ordinary wharf lumpors I (married men with families) could huvo batter performed. Two or throe woekn after tho‘Board ohangoa its intelligent (?) mind, aud gives these men notice of tho | discontinuance of tboir jobs. Now, eir, Sammy Weller said " The law ie a hass "; I aay the Board ie a bass, and I ask—maybe hass-liko—if it wouldn't be advisable for tho members of tho Board to resign bolus bolus, and glvo otbors the chanco to waste the £.s.d.—l am, etc., ROBERT ALLEN.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1569, 27 September 1905, Page 3
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