TAPU PUBLIC HALL.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2919, 24 June 1878, Page 2

TAPU PUBLIC HALL.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib,— Seeing in the Thames Advertiser that a public meeting was held in the Tapu Hall for the purpose of electing new trustees, if you will allow me apace I have a word or two to say on the matter. Some six months ago a public meeting was held for the purpose of throwing the Hall open to the public. At that meeting it was pointed' out that the whole thing would end in a mess, and that the goats and pigs would take charge. Accordingly the Hall was thrown open for the public, and now conies the farce:

Tom asked Jack for the key, Jack asked somebody else, and eventually the Hall door was burst open, and has not been locked since. Now then, in walks Mr Billy Goat and his spouses, and, like Brigham Young, has a roving commission. However, there is the William Goat at his music—pup-up, pup-up—chtz ! chtz ! —while the nannie darlings dance to his music. What with pigs squeaking and goats dancing, 'tis a perfect Pandemonium. And nowi Mr Editor, in the face of " Protect me," can you see why a vote of censure should be passed on the late trustees when at a public meeting the trustees were compelled to throw the whole thing up. „ Better still, the same parties who were-so prominent at that meeting, are the first to take office as trustees. Something smells j fishy here, as it is neither a gentlemanly nor a manly act. Mr Robert Wells, the convener of the present meeting, was foremost in the thumping hard about the Hall ' being thrown open for the public, and now quietly takes office as trustee in accordance with the wish of Murray. But I suppose that he (Robert Wells) can only baa when he is bidden; and«Jie (Mr' Newby), the carrier of the letter to the Thames Advertiser office for publication! would have done better if he bad gone quietly away to work with hie pick and ," shovel, and keep the tracks and roads in repair for the people, but instead he is now chairman of the said goal-house. A certain little prayer says:—"Give as this day our daily bread." I say work for it.—l am, &c,

Hastings.