THE MAYOR’S LETTER TO MR RAMSAY.

Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 4

THE MAYOR’S LETTER TO MR RAMSAY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir. —With reference to the letter from His Worship the .Mayor to Mr Ramsay, published in Saturday’s issue, I desire to state that it does not convey quite an acouirate impression of the interview to which it referred. Feeling that an error had been made in not consulting His Worship before communicating with Sir Henry John Millier, Mr Bamsay and I waited on the mayor and frankly acknowledged the mistake that had been made. We requester! him to reconsider his decision and suggested that Sir Henry might be appointed president and the Mayor of Dunedin chairman of the Dunedin Committee. The result is already known, and in communicating that result to the meeting of the Committee on Friday it wns deemed best, in the interests of His Worship himself, that his letter should not be v read. His publishsing it is a question of taste on which we can only allow the public to form their own judgment. Personally, I greatly regret that there should have been any unpleasantness in connection with such a movement, a feeling which I am aware Mr Ramsay fully shares. Mr Ramsay, I find, left town on Saturday morning. Had ha been here I am sure he would have concurred jr *his letter—l am, etc., A. Bathgate. April 1.