PUBLIC SERVANTS GENERALLY

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 309, 30 November 1883, Page 2

PUBLIC SERVANTS GENERALLY

• - _ r . — - „,, .«, ...,, ' ■■.. , , '. ' "'TO' THE 'EDITOR. ' "0< ' ; Siß,-rI npticed. a letter signed " Victim " in your last Tuesday's issiie, wWerein} i£e writer informs your readers he is a traveller! .lhia intimation is- quite supei-flu'ous. His igno^anQe of the, subject he rushes into print. ovei^ proclaims him a traveller— and a- very -' ignorant one at that. I say, shanUp 1 to hastily malign a public servant, whom he !kne|v cp^ld not?^retaliate; and before, he had : mad.e himself 66nv x erßaht'"with the facts.' As a resident of several year&in-Wyndhatn, and having frequent intercourse; .with. Mr Holly^, wood, lean say, without" ;f ear of contfaaic'i' jtion, liiat a more obl^ing a^id' efficient offiicer tue di partment has never had here ; and .as a community we are perftctJy satisfied Iwiih him. , I CGTiffcss his duties ajemultiferir, 1 ous, and th.it- a message Boy ' is" " seriously , needed, but we cannot' get everything at j once. Of course a ', " cad " (whbl iglalwaye <pi ! ,gre4t importance) can generally have two iioyerument. offici.ils to dance attendance :' upon him at Dunedih-aad lnvercargill,'bot ,he mtigt remember the next time he pays Wyndhara a visit, and gets victimised, to pocket his disappointment, and remember — Ah 'he is not in the metropolis. — 1 am, etc., Sympathy. Wyndham, Nov. 28, 1883.