LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 336, 25 December 1875, Page 2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

[advertisement.] gm,—ln last Wednesday’s issue of the Standard and People's Advocate, appeared an advertisement calling the members of the Hibernian Society to attend -a political meeting at Dr. Goold’s residence. I beg to state that the H.A.C.B. Society is not a political Society, and that no political questions are allowed to be introduced or discussed at any meetings of the Society ; nor can they hold their meetings, ordinary or otherwise, out of their Branch room for the convenience of other people. I should like to know what right Dr. Goold has to call a meeting of a Society of which he is not a member. —-I am, Ac., Michael Jennings, President, 944 St. Peter’s Branch, Gisborne. Sir, —I see a long letter in your last issue from the present ferryman, touching the shipping of wool, &c., from the jetty. Slow as lam a disinterested party, I will state for the benefit of whom it may concern, (I am not a lawyer) that the shipping of wool from the ferry wharf has been a public grievance and I wonder it was ever tolerated. The wool bales have been piled up from one end of the wharf to the other, to the great inconvenience of persons wishing to cross the river. If the Road Board (bless their clever hearts and heads) have given the ferryman authority to ship cargo and collect fees. I wonder at their conduct. 1 I should like to know where they got their authority from. There is only one legally constituted wharf, and only one legally appointed wharfinger, who holds his appointment from the Superintendent, and I should say from a public point of view, his rights ought to be protected.

The Road Board have the power, I believe, to see that the wharf is kept in properrepair.butthey have acted illegally if they have given permission to collect fees on the ferry wharf. From omf who knows the ropes. Ratepayer. Gisborne, December 23,1875.