SHEEP.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 249, 29 August 1877, Page 2

SHEEP.

(To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sir, —Seeing yon will give publicity to public matters, I think that when any public matter takes place, you ought to be informed, or the chairman of the meetings ought to tender the business transacted for publication, as since reading the correspondence between Major Atkinson and W. Hately, and seeing what a’ nice little game they were carrying oh, it is enough to make people surmise (not without cause) if it is not made public: Now, what Major Atkinson promised the deputation at Manutahi, or what transpired at the committee meetings about the scab, has never been communicated to the Press. I have heard also that some parties at Manutahi have actually got up a petition to send to the Premier, asking for Mr Hately to be retained in this district as Chief Inspector of Sheep. If so, I hope sohie one that has seen the petition will send a list of the names for publication.

I would suggest to shipowners before paying tie sheep rate, to ascertain if our rates are to pay Mr Hately, or to pay the Inspector that inspects the sheep. Surely Hately will not be allowed the same wages as though he came and inspected our flocks.—l am, &c., ONE that has NOT PAID his SHEEP RATES. Manutahi, August 27, 1877.