WAIROA HARBOR BOARD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6203, 7 October 1921, Page 6

WAIROA HARBOR BOARD.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Misplaced sympathy has been extended to me from Gisborne owing to a report appearing in a newspaper there that I had resigned owing to ill-health. This was not so. Failing to otherwise adjust an untenable position, I asked the Board either to mend or immediately end it. With the notice calling the meeting to appoint my successor, I seat the enclosed letter. Before the motion at that meeting to go immediately into committee was carried, I placed the accompanying letter, with others, on the table as a public document and have called a public meeting to hear my explanation. Had the Board accepted my resignation without public comment, there would have been no necessity for my explanation. But the remarks made and reported in the local paper and copied into yours are not fair, especially as my heart has been in the Waikokopu proposition since shortly after I came to Wairoa nearly four years ago.—l am, Yours etc., GEO. A. ESTHER. Wairoa, H.B. (Enclosure.) “Hie members of the Wairoa Harbor Board.—Gentlemen, —l request that I be offered the opportunity of making a personal explanation at the meeting called for 2 p.m. Thursday next, the 22nd inst., before the Board considers the appointment of my successor. It has been publicly reported from the Board meeting that I am dissatisfied, but the Board decided not- to enquire into the cause which, as a mere matter of justice, I should be allowed to state equally publicly. I have to inform the Board that there is grave cause for my dissatisfaction, and further that the Board and the ratepayers will be equally dissatisfied when .1 produce the evidence thereof. In my opinion, it is the duty as trustee for the ratepayers for the Board to agree to ray request. I wish the Board to understand that it is not dealing with a disgruntled man; as soon as my resignation was made public, I received an enquiry over the wire as to my being willing to take up a most important work, and request the Board to let me off for a few days after Thursday to keep a tentative appointment to discuss the matter.— Yours faithfully. Geo. A. Esther, Secretary.” (