WELLINGTON SAVINGS BANK.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 367, 7 February 1849, Page 3

WELLINGTON SAVINGS BANK.

We have been requested to publish the following letter addressed to the Secretary of the Wellington Savings Bank : — v Wellington, 3rd February, 1849. Sib, — I, have read in the Spectator of to-day a letter addressed by you to the Bequisitionists for a Meeting to elect a Superintending Committee for the Wellington Savings Bank, in which by authority and direction of the Trustees you inform them that such Meeting will not be called. I premise by stating my firm conviction that no Superintending Committee has been elected for the current year. Having been present at the adjourned Meeting of Managers, which was so abruptly and in my opi- ! nion disgracefully terminated without coming to any other decision, than simply to negative the amendment proposed by Mr. Hort, " that the Committee of last year be re-elected," having witnessed the spirit and feeling displayed on that occasion, and having subsequently discovered that even the majority of one (the chairman's casting vote) would not have been had, if some of those who voted for the introduction of politics into our social relations had not been induced by some unaccountable influence to voteiiigainst all their former professions and | in support of the very principle wliich they have always decried, and being convinced that a conside- i rable majority of the Managers are opposed to this attempt to make' a social institution a vehicle for political and party feeling, I feel bound to say that the refusal of the Trustees to call a meeting under such a requisition has caused me much surprise and j and regret,' and the more so because I think that it ] will considerably affect that respectable character which the -proceedings of the Savings Bank Management have hitherto borne. I have now to request that you will withdraw my name from the list of Managers for these reasons, — First, that if I am ineligible to be a member of the Committee I should also be ineligible as a Manager, and I admit that the same reasonable grounds exist hi either case, and secondly, that /I cannot consent to act in any matter where such unworthy considerations as characterize the late proceedings are even tolerated. I am, Sir, .. - 'c • . '. - Your obedient servant, i>. -• i Ghaq. Moor^. Mr. J. Woodward^ Hon. Secretary, Wellington Savings 'Bank: