Passing Notes.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 140, 3 May 1900, Page 3

Passing Notes.

by nE:,n Prtiia.

When it was proposed af. the ir.coi- «■£? of Sfc. Thomas' parishioners id 1 Wellington on Thnruhy uight that the i&vel ki« ikl le rccomnurSed b .Lt^alj uai c^iso in churc\ U'atttiVs, a lady rose in the body of tl &^ school and emphatically protcste I dguiust the motion. One of h< r giouncU of objoecion was tliat t1.6 grant of the fianchise would bo used as a levor to engineer the few mm i'ltorfstfl in chuich matters out of tho wvik altogether. The New Zealand Times says fhat the motion vv v 'at carried* however, with one dissentn." voice, which rang out like a warm..!? note amidst the chorus of laughter. — jlt seems strange for a woman to Jioppose the motion, and one of her objections is a very peculiar on^. fcjlio admitted thrib thfi'e were very fow m3ii iiitereSLLed in ehvu'fih work, and yet &he preferred that these few men (should have all the '"say" in governing ;\ I chuich largely composed of women. ; Like all v. ouiun, bho couJdn i be At all i logical.

If there is one person more thnn another who seems to me to h.ive a'i pp'sv life, it i& the boro igh binfaccmai Tune ami acun 1 intended to wui.about it, but always fc+ioucjht that ojih oi the councillors would bang tluj luaUei up, bus no one Lab uvei do:,e bu, tiud H rciiitiius l'oi H P. to mantiou it. If an employer pays a man £2 pc week, he «xpt cts and should get nt. least £2 10* worth of « ork out of th.>.c man The borough pays its surfaceman ;£1 per week, not an extravagant sum certainly, and does io got £1 worth ot work ? Those who have \\ atcher" s his woik for a week answer ujos. decidedly, "No !" Any boy of IS years of ago would do more in tbv time. Of course there ere alwvyj certain people who have nothing to <"h and so must be kept amused by '• yai ;i ing " but that isn't what the Borousjh Council empl'iy a nn.n for. 'Jhe quantity of woik vouldo't be bo bad. if the right woik were uudurtaki.ii , but it ib not. Ouly on Monday tiit suiij,ceman vtas basy digging oat t'uo weeds fiom atnoijgt,t the shingle lat< h put down in the lower end of Shea Im.in street. These weeds were doing no harm, and not likely to go to see*-', and this was the most useless bit ol work 1 pvor saw done. There ma miles of water tables in the borou v which need seeing to, but " handle ' seems to be very fond of staying ut town. At least one of the stieeU mentioned in the Works Committee' 1 * report as requiring repairs was spoil. •;.' solely by water banking up. because i couldn't get away through the prop' > channel. I think I have said enou^'t to prove that the surfaceman ismeiek' a pensioner on the Lorough Couuc and that body, as well as any ouu, other, hao a right to get value lt,r wages paid without allowing oi'hu. questions to enter into the matter.