Mount Wellington Engineer Resigns

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 15

Mount Wellington Engineer Resigns

“IGNORANT SUSPICION”

“In case I should in the smallest measure embarrass your board, I am now content to lay down my charge,” wrote Mr. £3. Trevor Dibble, in tendering his resignation as consulting engineer to the Mount Wellingtonn Road Board on Tuesday evening.

“The process of the expression of British self-government, of which I am intensely proud, indicates that it is necessary that 1 should resign owing to the prevalence of an idea fostered in a misguided section of the ratepayers that my influence with your board has, in the past, assumed a dictatorial attitude.”

Mr. Dibble also stated that, however confident he was that the works he had at heart would serve the district well, he considered it was better that he should resign, for he had for the time being served a purpose.

He contended that the results in the expenditure of money and achievement of work had been exceptionally satisfactory for the district, and was content to leave further proof of his work to the test of time.

Mr. Dibble also pointed out that the primitive nature of the board’s office facilities had forced on him responsibilities and initiative he could not have been expected to assume, and it had given ground for ignorant suspicion.

The resignation was considered in committee. Subsequently members referred in high terms to the excellent manner in winch the engineer had carried out the loan works.

Further consideration of the question was deferred till December 15.