CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4758, 27 June 1894, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Grievance,

[To the Editor W.D. Timas,]

. Sir,—l would like, through tli medium of your valuable paper, to place a grioyance before the people of this district. The grievance is .thatof the men discharged from the slip nt ilMMmalioo on Saturday ••last>. WMk, we wero engaged to heluremow the slip, when it first cnnwdowß,.andhadto work night and day, in all sorts of weather and I tinder circumstances that we should not be asked to do if working for _ any contractor. Last week somo . men—who had only left the cooperative works at Eketahuna a few days—were put on to help in this work, But an order came from head quarters to shorten the hands engaged, as tlio most of the work wbb done. As a ralo on these sort of works the lastcomersave supposed he the first goei*a, but in this part ticplnv instance that order has been I'eyeveDct, The first comeva appear to have been the first tobedischarged, What I want to know is this: Was ■it fair to iib men who lmd done all the rough work, that we should have • to go and mako room for the fresh 'hands to do the smooth ? If it was because these men who were dis; charged were not competent to do the work .required, whywerothoy kept on But let mo assure you that' every one of tho men discharged were men that havs bcon earning theirlivelihoodwjth the pick and years, and who have worked,'«er some of the biggest contra(!t<smn this. Colony, "What I' wonld like answeredjSiris this: who is to blame for tho favouritism that has been shown totheselastcomersP Thanking ypu in Anticipation. ■ " • • J yejnain, etc., ■ OK£ or thk Disciiaiigkd.

St Matthew's Boys' Club, [To tub Epnc® WtD, Times.] Sm.—Tlie information on which yow yesterday's jocal pn tjie aboyo institution was based was slightly . jjicprrect. Thp Qlyli is certainly not j jjelng cpndnptcd J>s it should, be, but 11 the toys arc not alono to blamo for v it, but 'one or two exceptions a 1 tjio vrhole of those'gentlemen, who ' took part in the inauguration of the institutiAv have, since that imposing " . nottho slightest in- j The boys haye J been-leffc to" tMr own devices and'it is not very "Surprising .that, their mode of amusing themselves has he- | come, objectionable.- Still their be- • j. .haTr|qpr. ; has. not. been to ; bad >as ;ap- 1 vjearsirom Iho local referred to; ' panes- been J the as the < cupb6ai"d—by V tho

tlio seats lmvo hud bits ohipped off the ends of thorn, and a practical joke t was certainly played on thooustodian on Saturday night. These actß of misbehaviour aro not performed, as a rule, by tlio membovsof tho club, but! by youths who liftvo 110 right thero. I On Wednesday night last, I caught] ono of tho lattor turning off tho gas, j and making a disturbance, and I at| onco put tho matter 111 the hands of the polico. This stato of disovdor is oxactly what I predicted to Mr Paige, and I urged him to get membora of tlio committee to uhdorlako regular duty, 011 fixed :Ho said, however, thathoboliovodinthe boys being loft to manago their own affairs. That this plan has proved impractical, results have shown. If, theroforo, tho Club is to bo a useful institution, it is absolutely necessary that a strong committee should talco tho matter in lmiid, and, by arranging a programme of work and supervision, place tho institution on a proper footing. If there are not to bo found in Masterton, a few men willing to undertake tho work, then, I think it will certainly be wiso to disband tlio Club. I am, etc., W, H, Jackso.v, Hon. Treas. St. M. Boys' Club. Mnsterton, 26th June, 1894.