TIMAR HARBOR BOARD MATTERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2436, 10 December 1892, Page 2

TIMAR HARBOR BOARD MATTERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —Just a few words of warning in your valuable and extensively-read paper to the electors of the Geraldine county in reference to the last and crowning act of the (bare) majority of the Timaru Harbor Board. I have been watching this delightful piece of business from its infancy, and I must say it is as barefaced a piece of jobbery as ever was perpetrated. It is needless for me to say anything as to what has been said at the board meetings, the electors know it all by heart, but I can’t let the members composing the majority (?) off without an expression of my feelings. Sir, I think for delightfulness of cheek and out-and-out conceit of their own loftiness of ideas, greatness, and capacity of sound sense, that the chairman and Mr Teschemaker can’t be surpassed, in this county at any rate. Oh, my ! the untutored. Bear that word in mind electors. Vote only for the cultured and tutored, and be sure you put in a good sprinkling of the men of big estates, who pay all the rates, and never you dream of the 2d and 4d-rate men. Oh dear, no ! Electors, J, as an Englishman, but a very old Canterbury man, like everything that is done in all matters to be done openly and not secretly and hole-and-corner fashion—sort of cut-and-dried before the meetings commence. I am proud of Messrs Flatman, Evans, Hill, and Stumbles, and sincerely trust that they may be elected again, but as for the other members, the best thing they can do is to stop at home and look after their big estates; but there, they will be served the same same as a great number of old Conservatives were at the ]ast Gfenera] Election, viz., compelled to iukfj back S§af. Book out, electors ! the expense wont end at £18,00(1 for a steam-pot a?* grab-all You will know more about it this time next year. I m, etc., Looker On.