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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 161, 12 July 1867, Page 3

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NELSON EVENING MAIL. SiE' — I have wondered ever since the Estimates were printed that no one has publicly remarked upon the extraordinary item of £100 for a testimonial to our highly paid but little worked Resident Magistrate, Registrar of f)eeds, late Provincial Treasurer, etc., etc., who has so long comfortably pocketed £1050 a year of public money, while getting the chief part of his work done by deputy. The claims of Mr. Poynter to such a mark of consideration are a puzzle to everyone I have spoken with on the subject. Our Superintendent must surely have

been mesmerised by the Ghost of the old Government when he consented to send such a proposal to the Council. Two or three years ago the Council refused a similar vote to a man whose efforts as an early explorer entitled him to some recognition for services in which health and even life were risked, and great hardships endured. The Council will hardly give it now in favor of one who has distinguished himself in nothing except in being the least worked and best paid public servant in New Zealand. Yours, etc., Fiat Jdstitia.