PREMIER AND MAYOR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7052, 23 October 1900, Page 2

PREMIER AND MAYOR.

(per association.) \ / Wellington, October 22. \ i On the last day of tbe session, the Premier, referring to the ease of the widow of; tbe late Lieutenant Berry, denied the statemen,!! attributed to Mayor Swan at a borough council meeting to the effect that the Government had done nothing for her, adding that at the time the statement was made Mr Swan had in bis pocket correspondence irom the commandant to the contrary. M* Swan prints in the Herald tbo whole J correspondence. The first letter was Ben ' !™ here by }h Q Mayor on the 7th of Augu.stj applying for aid for Mrs Bewy. That letter was never even acknowledged. On September 6ih, nearly a month later, the commandant telegraphed in genera terms, asking to be infQpm<eil of disbursements out of loj^aj, fond to any invalided members. of tbe con* tingents or wjves ojr families of men. To. ; wards tbj end of September a letter was received from Mrs Berry's father, seating- that no assistance had been given from tbe Government or any fund outside Hawke's Bay. This letter was read by the Mayor, wbo on September 27th wrote to the Defence Minister on the subject. That letter also has never been acknowledged. Mr .Swan emphatically declared that the only communication repeived wep i)m, communication from the. oomman'dant referred to. ' ;