THE LATE PUBLIC MEETING.

Waikato Times, Issue 641, 29 June 1876, Page 3

THE LATE PUBLIC MEETING.

'Bin,— knowing the love of fair play by win b you i«ro actuated, will you gfre me space for •% tnggestion in' -refownoe to public m» etings bold•on such quemurts »» th*t of Momlay night last, •r.nd that is, that in future ih* rote in all such 'Cases, shall bt taken by ballot. It is, I think you n ill admit, 'iearedy tnir thiit -workmen, trade*men, and others thould be com} elled to gire *n open yoto. On Monday ni/ht Oiere Wtre many preient who, if a ballot huct been taken, would ha/o been found toting against fch» reiolutioni, but who, in the pre-enre of theit employert and -cottomers, riared not risk baring a black mark iset a^aln^t their namei, I can »j^rtk for myitlf thai thu wai 10, ai>d if the ballot it necesiary to ■<euro freedom in voting in parliamentary ejection*, it it cren more to in the case of public •m^tintja «uch aa thnt of Mpnday lasu— l am, ~&C, WoBKHiK. Hamilton East, Jum 23. ;