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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5014, 19 April 1877, Page 2

The Evening Post in its pai’agraph referring to tho Wharf Committee meeting yesterday, erred in saying “ a number of statements were put in signed by various masters of local trading vessels to the effect that they had been offered bonuses by Mr. Reeves to discharge at Plimmer’s wharf instead of at the Queen’s wharf.” There arc also one or two slight mistakes in other portions of the paragraph, which may be accounted foi by the fact that very probably the paragraph was in type before or shortly after the meeting commenced —a little after 3 o’clock. In connection with this subject we are of opinion that a mistake was made in excluding the reporters from the meeting during the hearing of the petition against Mr. Reeves. It would have been much more fair both to Mr. Reeves and the public that the whole of the proceedings should have been made public. As will be seen by our report, the reporters were permitted to be present during a portion of the time, and our representative was afterwards furnished with the correspondence laid before the meeting in reference to the subject under discussion. That correspondence, together with the result of the committee’s investigation, will be found in another column.