APPOINTMENT OF DOG REGISTRAR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1257, 24 January 1883, Page 2

APPOINTMENT OF DOG REGISTRAR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l see by an advertisement in your issue of yesterday, and signed by the Chairman of the Cook County Council, Mr Chambers, that the office of that Council will be closed two days in each week, which is equal to onethird of the working or business days throughout the year, and all for the purpose of increasing the salary of the present Clerk to the County Council. Now, why having appointed him dog tax collector bo as to increase his salary, and make the ratepayers pay merely for being inconvenienced, 1 fail to see. 1 should wish to be informed by what authority the Council can close the doors of the Council Chambers one-third part of the year, when the books, etc., are supposed to be open to inspection daily to any ratepayer who may wish to gain information. Again, the Clerk received £2OO per annum for two-thirds of the time which he agreed to devote to the Council’s work when he applied for the situation, and now the Council oppose the very stipulations under which they engaged him, viz., to give the whole of his time to the Council for a salary of £2OO per annum. Now they only compel him to give two-thirds, and give him an extra £5O for the other thi.d he is absent from his work. Are the ratepayers to be baffled by the Council in this manner? Surely not. What has Mr John Warren done that such favours should be conferred on him, when there are plenty of equally deserving men who would be only too glad to receive the £5O alone wl ich is given as an extra to Mr John Warren, and which the ratepayers have to pay. Reduce a salary £3O and add to it £so.—Yours, <fcc. Ratepayer. •