WELLINGTON HARBOR SECRETARY RESIGNS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 October 1907, Page 2

WELLINGTON HARBOR SECRETARY RESIGNS.

Per Press Association. Wellington, Lust Night. -hi 1 . \\ lli'uu Ferguson, for twentyaieu jears secretary and engineer to >!' • M ■llmgtun Harbor Board, for the f" ,M u h, a Bal,u 'y of weo per v •!,r" w ".H on to the chairman k-.ginng Ins position. H e explains that . , a special meeting 0 f the Board on the 1.-t mutant the chairman ruled that it was not permissible for the secretary to lay his views before the Board without the unanimous consent of the members present at the meeting, a consent which . 011 that occasion was withheld", with tlie result that the Board came to a decision on tlie matters before them without any opportunity having been given to its chief executive olKccr to place ljefore the members those points bearing on the matters under discussion which from his experience lie thought it was desirable that members should have cognisance of. Mr. Ferguson saya when he joined the Board's service he wan always asked to express his views freely, lie has not abused the privilege, and is therefore reluctantly compelled to conclude that lie lias lost the confidence and respect of a majority of the present members. While not desiring to criticise the chairman's decision, he feels the position laid down is an untenable one for him.