ON THINGS IN GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 253, 12 September 1877, Page 2

ON THINGS IN GENERAL.

('To the Editor of the Patea Mail.) Sip.—Being a constant reader I naturally am interested in correspondents’ letters. On reading - a loiter anenfc letting- the Patea Wharves i'ur the benefit of the whole County, I wondered what hail become of the person who signed himself “One who hale; '1 richer and if lie re illy practiced wha hj ■ pr 'ached, for the Patea Harbour Una;d is, without exception, the grossest libel on local government in New Zealand. It is Amply a nominee Boa d, and who, or what, does the Harbour Board repreS ‘Hi ? C add you, sir, inform the ratepayers what special claim any particular auctioneer has on the public that the Harbour Board should give him the privileg'd of selling the Harbour Reserves, Ac., without giving the oilier auctioneer-', who are paying their licenses within the county,-an opportunity of doing the same. Why were tenders not called ? The County Council advertised for doctors for the Patea Hospital. It is just th : dilforcnce • between a nominee and an elective body. At what person’s request was the Wairoa Recreation Ground vested in the Patea County Council ? Having rend (he County Council’s irroceedings, I fail to discover any person appointed to apply to tiio Government for that purpose. I saw that a motion proposed by Councillor Kona!’, seconded by Councillor Kells, to vest the above Recreation Ground in the Wave ley Town Board, was upset by a side wind of Mr Sherwood’s. What was to have prevented the Waverly Town Board applying to the Government for extended powers re Recreation Ground ? On referring to 3mm l issue of the 4th January, 1877, I find Mr Middlemas proposed, and Mr Livingstone seconded, that the clerk, treasurer, and collector’s salary be £3OO per annum. Mr Dale proposed, and Mr Honyfield seconded, that the salary be £l5O per annum. At the last meeting of the. Council Mr Middlemas proposed, and Mr Livingstone seconded, that the salary be reduced to £175 per, annum—which does not say' much for the astuteness of either Mr Middlemas or Mr Livingstone.

Referring to Education matters, Mr Middlemas figures verv loudly in paying high salaries with public money. The cloven foot appears in the resolution which lapsed for (lie want of a seconder, viz., that £25 be given in aid of the Hawera Institute, such Institute being situated in ihe Riding of which the aforesaid gentleman is a representative. _ The Foreman of Works’ application for a rise of salary likewise received Mr Middlemas’ support. —I am, &c. OBZERYEK. fNote.— Any correspondent bona fide desiring an answer might ask a question civilly. A kick or a snarl usual! begets like retort. Considering the not civil-way in which the question about wharves was asked, the Chairman of the Harbour Board could not reasonably have been expected to reply. Civilly asked most likely civil reply would have been given.— Ed. Mail.]

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