CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1187, 28 October 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Two candidates are said to be in the field for the Mayorship of Gisborne. Now, without championing either the one or the other, I would desire to point out that th© Mayor of Gisborne and the Chairman of the Harbor Board are one and the same. Now it is extremely desirable that the Chairman of the latter body should possess not »)on© a keen business knowledge, but also a shrewd appreciation of commerce and its valu’d. A man may have a love for the beautiful, another may be devoted to music, but in nine hundred and ninety-nine oases out of a thousand, these men without a thorough business education, are unfitted for the proud position of Mayor. What wo went is a man who possesses sufficient brain to grasp the requirements of the town and the district generally, and to consider from a financial point of view how best to obtain those concessions which a promising country like the Bay much needs. Business knowledge obtained m it only can be obtained, by .starting at the first rung of the ladder, and then gradually ascending to the top, is most essential. A man’s social position is nothing when compared with a man's kowledge of the commercial wants of a district when it beomes a question of who shall be our Mayor and Chairman of the Harbor Board. I think that the election of a Mayor demands more than a mere cursory consideration, and should be pondered over carefully.—l am, etc., An ex-Mxbqjunt.

THE SHOEING PRIZE. 4f Sir,—ln your issue of October 26th you represented me as the winner of the prize for the best shod horse, the only mistake you made is, I did not get the price. Men oa]>able of judging say it was the best shoeing they have seen in Poverty Bay. But, sir, you make a still greater mistake in your issue of the 27th where you me as a shoeing smith, but as you do not know me, and perhaps your sleepy reporter has led you astray, I will let that pass and come to the main object. I know nothing about making shoes for man or beast, but I do know when either is well shod. The maker of those exhibited on my horse is Mr 'I homas Pardoe, whose establishment is at Matawhero, and who is now willing to compete with any one of the trade now in Poverty Buy for five, ten or twenty pounds—to make shoes in the most workmanlike manner; put on in the shortest space of time ; each man to handle the same sot of tools. Pardon for troubling.—l am, &o, Robt. Mcßret.ney.