WAIMAKARIRI BOARD OF CONSERVATORS AND THEIR CHAIRMAN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2140, 4 January 1881, Page 3

WAIMAKARIRI BOARD OF CONSERVATORS AND THEIR CHAIRMAN.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sib, —Permit me to reply in a few lines to your scribble in the Editorial of tho 30th inst. lam first charged with being an active particle —mouthpiece of the Government j with developeing pecular Ideas ; of kaveing a blush painfully visable ; of being a brand now chairman ; that I thought it would be better to postpone Mr Harman’s visit; no doubt it was painfull to me not to filter Mr Harman through me ; that it never struck the chairman that other members might want to ask Mr Harman some questions; that I was vaguely oonsious of zny duties; that I ought to have been the last man to have thought of postponeing Mr Harman’s visit ; that the first remark I made was about something in the Avon Road Board; That my remarks were a slip of the torgae. That the late Board have been a very paragon of exelency and there works do follow them. This is a list filtered through the brains of the Editor, which must have been very much muddled at tho time from what cause I know not, I leve the public to judge of that. Now, sir, I am an active particle now doubt. I have to learn if that is a disgrace, perhaps you will let me into tho secret. If my aotivites were employed in writting what is false and one-sided and bordering on the scurrilous, then my aotivites might be complained of with some mesure of justice. Also of being the Government mouthpiece, if after taking the troble to find the “ Gazzett” to be shure we were right, and reading it, and being asked to read the advertizment given by tho Mayor of Christchurch calling the meeting is rong, so be it. lam satisfied if the Editor of the Globe is not. Also with developing curious ideas ; it may be through the Editor’s green speotackels. Also of huyeing a blush quite painful], I can vow no one was in pain but the editor ; to him it was curdled milk ; also, as being a brand-new chairman, we will take as the taunt of a weak and disordered stomach ; also, that I thought it would be better to postpone Mr Harman’s visit. Now, serious, Mr Editor, was postponeing the visit likely to prevent the members of the Board haveing an opportunity of asking Mr Harman any questions, or all the questions they thought fit at our next meeting, when I could have laid before them many more facts which it will be necessary for them to know, and on which they would then have been enabled to ask practical questions ; wereas they, the Board, asked soarsely nothing, save what was asked by the painfully blushing chairman ; and as to the filtering business, I am rather bulky, and am affraid nothing will filter through me sufficiently clear for the editor of the Globe to see through. As to being vaguely coneious of my duties, that may be. Rotten eggs don’t smell much untill they are broken. If the Editor of the Globe continues to hammer me I may give him soms unplesr.nt odurs. As to my being [very indiscrete in mentioning matters which the late'Board would have attended to at once but for their early disolution, which was one of the things Mr Harman did speak upon and impress upon the Board as of importance, though in the Avon district—the very unfortunate district represented by the chairman—the unqualified and nearly imbecile—and because so represented it must not have its rongs redressed, not when even tho late excelent Board would. have do so. Now, Mr Editor, I am not affraid of honest critisism ; I expect to get it; but let it be fair and in a proper spirit. When men take up public business for nothing, they don’t expect to be paid by auoh miserable scribbling as appears to-day. Yours, &c., J. L. WILSON. [Mr J. L. Wilson has decided views on our article of Thursday, which he appears to object to in toto. About certain phrases he certainly appears to make himself needlessly unhappy. We never meant to blame him for being an " active particle,” rather the contrary ; nor did wo think we should hurt his feelings by suggesting that he was capable of blushing, as most individuals out of their teens are rather proud than otherwise of that accomplishment. And so in a number of expressions which Mr Wilson objects to. With regard to the real points of our article, we cannot think that Mr Wilson has upset them in the slightest. Mr Wilson being an ex chairman of a local committee of ono of our district schools we have not presumed to alter his orthography in any way whatsoever. —Ed. Globe.]