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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1721, 6 September 1862, Page 4

To the Editor of the New Zealander. Sir, —I perceive that the public are becoming aware of the necessity of the existence of such an officer as an inspector of nuisances, more than one letter having appeared in the columns of your contemporary regarding the nuisances which are suffered to exis't. That contemporary, however, does not inform its correspondents why such an officer has not been appointedalthough it probably knows that the same factions opposition in the Council, which sought to place the Provincial Government in an odious light with the outscttlcrs and citizens by refusing to supply the Superintendent with the funds necessary for keeping the roads and streets in a proper state of repair, refused also for equally factious reasons to vote the salary for this useful and necessary officer. The office of inspector of nuisances was not the only office for which these Simon Pures and financial mudlarks refused to Vote the salary—not, I believe, from a conviction of the uselessness of the offices, but from the fact that the holders of them were supporters of the present Government. Of course the inconvenience to public safety and business was as nothing compared to the gratification of such a party triumph. One who knows the it. Auckland, September sth.