Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEB. 28, 1895. The Levin Meeting.

Manawatu Herald, 28 February 1895, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, FEB. 28, 1895. The Levin Meeting.

The meeting held on Saturday night at Levin was not a credit to that thriving town. It may be well that a lesson of the kind has been given so that the respectable part of the community may understand that their good names? are necessarily mixed uj) in any such scandal and that they ate partially to blame by not being present and so repress the " hoodleyism " which was allowed too much sway. We hope, for the credit of Levin, Saturday's meeting, being the first, will also be the last conducted in the manner reported. Common courtesy to strangers and visitors should have entitled them to •better treatment.

The cause of the meeting was to interest the inhabitants to protest against the granting of another publican's license in Levin. The opposition appears to have arisen from those who desired that the transfer applied for by Mr Campbell should be granted. We are not going into the question as to whether the application should, or should not, be granted, but shall review the conduct of the meeting from the, apparently, very good report supplied by the Vf est Coast Mail. From this report it would be gathered that

though the opinions of the speakers weiv) not in accord with the opinions held by the majority cf the audience, and some objections were interjected, no real trouble arose until Mr Barihilomew, in the midst of a Mr Grant's remarks ascended the platform •' to protest because the temperance party had vilified the people on the State Farm." Mr Grant showed that the State Farm had nob been mentioned at the meeting, and in the report supplied by the Mail this appears to be perfectly correct. The chairman of the meeting was undoubtedly weak to permit anyone to so trespass upon politeness and the ordinary conduct of a public meeting, one speaker at a time being the usual proceeding. We do not wish to lay the responsibility of the misconduct of the meeting upon Mi* Bartholomew, but he certainly set them a vtry bad example. We would also refer to another custom ruling the conduct of public gatherings w hich is that a speaker is only allowed to address tho meeting once upon any motion. The Chairman having permitted Mr Bartholomew to break into Mr Grant's address and make a speech, which apparently exhausted all he had to say at that time, then allowed Mi- Atkinson to speak when after Mr Atkinson had spofon a little fcime > the report states " Mr Bartholomew again rose and on the chairman explaining that Mr Atkinson had not finished, Mr Bartholomew said he wasn t going to stay-all nigbt, and the uproar grew from bad to worse until the ohnirman decked to le » ve the chair." , However unp^asnnt may have been the conduct of a large number of the andiencft, the report certain ly points to the proceedings being upset by Mr Bartholomew's laudable dosiro to get to bed early. There appears to have been no good reason why he should not have retired when he felt inclined, he had had his pay, nnnrrnnged, earlier in the meeting. To put one's views before a meeting and then to object to an opponent setting forth his views is very un-English and is most unfair. It may be that at the latter stage of the meeting Mr Bartholomew was too sleepy to have noticed this view of the question find it may bo that this cause is the truo explanation of an unsatisfactory incident in the life of the town of Lf>vin.

The clerk of the Otaki Licensing Committee has written to the members that the Magistrate has direottd him to adjourn the meeting of the committee from the sth to the 14th March to enable the Crown Prosecutor to attend 1 So much for the letter. We had understood that a meeting could be adjourned " at the discretion of the Commit i cc." The " Magistrate " whoever he may be in connection with the Committee, perhaps the chairman is meant, appears to hold the view that the committee has no discretion.

Mr Andrew Young, of We'lington, says the Tdranctki Herald, has with his son purchased the coaching service and plant between Hawera and New Plymouth.

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