CURIOSITIES OF A BALANCE SHEET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 50, 1 March 1867, Page 2

CURIOSITIES OF A BALANCE SHEET.

To the Editor of the ' Evening Mail.'

Sib, — It appears that 42 dinner tickets were sold at the Anniversary fete, from which I calculate that was the number fed. Now that cost £82 11s. Bd., for which Stock receives £75 to feed 42 persons. I did not understand free tickets were »iven to any one. Next on the list is Carter, who receives say £53 to feed about 606 of the plebeians. Then we have the public tea, which the" sheet says cost £60 10s. 6d., for which Pickard receives £58 17s. 4d., which gives a difference of £1 13s. 4d. Next take T. Cother's item :

what is that for, I wonder ? And for what reason were so many kept from the public luncheon when butchers and boys were distributing tickets to favorites, and old settlers from the country could wander about the field (diguified by the name of Botanical Gardens), hungry, thirsty, faint, and disconsolate. Perhaps these items can be explained ; we are not to suppose they have been pocketed, small as they are. If ever the inhabitants of Nelson require to keep their eyes open, it is now, anil place a man as Superintendent at the head of affairs who will see that the money raised by taxiug the people is spent in a legitimate manner and not squandered ia anniversary tomfoolery, and all to please a clique that laugh in their sleeve that we have been gulled so long. Yours, &c, Observer. Nelson, February 28.