MORE RAILWAY MATTERS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7613, 9 December 1886, Page 3

MORE RAILWAY MATTERS.

Sir,— lt really appears that the Government delight' in harboring a class of officials for the purpose or keeping the public in a constant condition of ferment and worry. In the name of all that is high and' mighty, I would ask how is it that poor people endeavoring to gain an ascendancy by honest means are prevented from doing so by the remarkable individual who governs matters (at least he seems to think so) at the railway station ? Speaking for myself, I have no calling but that of fisherman, and under such calling I endeavor to gain an honest livelihood. But, sir, if I am prevented selling my fish at or in the vicinity of the station, where our best traffic is done, then I may as well at once throw up the sponge and apply for charitable aid. To-day myself and another fisherman were served with summonses for standing our fish boxes on the vacant plot of ground between the Terminus Hotel and the station, although I have always taken care to keep clear of the traffic. Besides, people as a rule do not care aljout carrying fish throughthe town, so they prefer buying at the station. Therefore wo consider ourselves a public convenience. But, sir, whilst the tightbreeched, monnteilconstaWewasservingns the summonses to-day, I lifted mine eyes, and beheld from the back-door of the railway station the grinning phisiognomy_ of the" " I am " himself, evidently gloating over his anticipated and much- coveted victory over the vulgar, horrid fishermen — grinning diabolically at our calamity, and mocking us in our trouble. However, we may have to pay the fines imposed by the Court, but it may be consolation to us to know that the gentleman in question is keenly watched.— l am, &c, P. T. Martin. Napier, December Sth, ISS6.