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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1261, 22 December 1882, Page 2

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TO IHE EDITOR. Sm,—ln your issue of the 18th inßt'T notice what purports to be a report of the quarterly meeting of the Eketahuna ! LicenßingrGomwilieeihol(l,at Eketahuiiij on Saturday jasj, ani} jtba| Iho only; hns'ir ness was the irispeci'inn of the additions totlio local hotel, and; that;--Sergt-.;jPri cp/, was in attondanco at the meeting.

Now Sir, whoovei'jgave you .that report must have donetitW screen somMLoe whose duty it was to be there, 'hut in whose übsariceliheVmeel'ing lapsedi.lniay etfite thatl had businoes.fit that meeting, and had travelled 17 miles Vo attend' it,' The resident committoemen were in attendance from 10.20 till 3 p.m, Sergt Prico was watching the Maaterlon road" very nearly the whole of that time, Then he)reraarked to tho oommittee;men ; '|-I tKink.jle'ntjemen, w ; q' Ha'Ve waijed jlojjg enough, there will be no meeting to-day." The commitlee-meni.agreed) withiliiniaso he, (the sergeant) took his departure for Maaterlon, and' I wended my way home in no very pleasant humour, having travelled 34 mile\lMdljolel ( expenses to pay, and lost a day-work.- j qon'fj think its right, for a public servant'to waste people's time, and I hope it will not occur again or you will surely hear of it.;;M;> r; Troth.

Pahiatua,'l^h.Pe'pem ( ber,J8 I B2;f'{ -j [Mr Freetb, the clerk*to the bench,'who is referred to in this letter has bad more duties pitchforked on to his shoulders" Sil recßHtlyihan : he, cpulc)., ppssibjy fulfil. At the 'date in question he'waa deprived of tbo services of liiflassistah't/andi had to bolvo the problem of being iuitwo places at the same time by the only '. possible method —Ed. W.D.I 3')Wii'J (iwwd li:!i'v.iivT"i'j;;i) ,'.')') •;.