THE FEILDING CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1879. "JUSTICE" AND THE TELEGRAPH POLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 2 July 1879, Page 2

THE FEILDING CHRONICLE AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1879. "JUSTICE" AND THE TELEGRAPH POLES.

The sensibility of .our sawmillers has been touched by a letter,whieh appeared m a recent issue of the Guardian, under the nomdefly/toe o^ Justice," re ? the . tenders called for 4000 telegraph poles. The/ sawmillers rightly, .consider' thut the letter liolds them ipo 'cheap, and that it is altogether a very silly procluction. The writer contends that the delivery < being fixed at Wellington V bars ;.a considerable number: irbraj tendering, '?as it is entirely out ot their sphere to have anything to 1 do; with the caL-riago." This will- be news for f ho>e of the craft who, before the du^ty on foreign tiiriber was insanely remitted, were m the" habit of shiiyping largely to the South. Barring itjie} -delif er:^ at Wj9llington i .'had the writer inquiry before rushing^itjtq print, he would have found that all he ' -ci^mftrs fop is conceded ii:.' the speci^catioii, which ajlpwi of tenders for 1000 pollßS being sent- in, anc he who . could Bofc^ Arrange'"' for thi freight of a tKo^sand-pojes to Welling tojiV must be aryeny 'diminutive speci me.n--.of ' th^f imaginary clas^'Qf siwmillers whose cause " Justioe -■ chftm pions, ■ iitid which he not; inaptly de ''small fry." Had the^writci;' of the letter m question been desirou pf exercising the '»! <}it which as jj yßritisher he undbub'tedly possess e/-— that of grumbling — he would; have %<&s& \sisWss *FB%* for tk« e^rcise '

of this prerogative, m the fact that "Bpecifieatioiiß are^d^ertised to b« i«en only at Gfeytown, Poxton, Palmerston, and W«Uington, whilst Feildifig,, the yery heart of the diitrict, is altogethttr. ig upred. .