The people in the district in which the Hon. Colonel Brett resides are to be pitied if what that gentleman said in the Council yesterday is to be strictly relied upon as fact. In committee on the Local Elections Bill Colonel Brett stated;, that the majority of the ratepayers in his district could not read, and a great many- others had such an original way of attempting to read that the chances were ten to one against them understanding the Bill; this he said in support of a suggestion made by another member that the Bill was much too complicated. We hope Colonel Brett was carried away by a too vivid imagination and a very impulsive nature, for the state of things he pictured in a few words as being peculiar to his district is very bad. Perhaps it might’ be , well, and at the.same time not offensive, to give to Colonel Brett the same advice that was given Tattiooram by her excellent patron—to count twenty before speaking.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4782, 20 July 1876, Page 2
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