THE CORPORATION GARDENER.

Evening Star, Issue 8483, 7 April 1891, Page 4

THE CORPORATION GARDENER.

TO THH EDITOR.

Sib,—Whatever has poor M'Bean done or not done to displease Mr Fish ? I suppose that we may expect to see our curator steadily hounded down. Mr Fish's presumption knows no limit. He talk on behalf of the citizens of north end I I, as a ratepayer for the past thirty years of Leith Ward, protest against Mr Fish talking for us. He belongs to South Ward, and they are at full liberty to rejoice Over their councillor. We will none of him. Cr Fish asserts from the fullness of his knowledge of botany that all that is required is a man with a scythe and spade. I would ask him if a man with a brush and a pot of paint will make a painter? He forgot to add an axe to the list of implements required to fit out a gardener after his heart. For was it not by Mr Fish's direction that ail the stately pines in the Botanical Gardens were ruthlessly hewn down? Mr Fish talks glibly about not getting honest labor. I have seen the gardens under the oharge of various curators, and I can say that the gardens never looked better. He asserts that buttonholing has been going on. Well, if all accounts be true, a man must needs do something these times —he must either button-hole or else belong to a certain religious persuasion to retain his situation.—l am, etc., A Ratepayer. Dunedin, April 7.