THE PROVINCIAL HALL.

Marlborough Express, Volume V, Issue 261, 19 November 1870, Page 4

THE PROVINCIAL HALL.

To the Editor of the Marlborough Express. Sir, —I am sorry to. see that “One,” who wrote a note published in your last issue, has discovered a meaning in my previous communication very foreign to my intentions, and so diverse from what I thought was so plain and self-evident. In alluding to the hall being used by certain persons for a dance, I said, “ Why the hall should be refused to [a body numbering] 150 or 200 members, as the Oddfellows, while it was granted with or without leave to a few nobodies, I could not tell.” I certainly meant no offence to any of the persons in question, but simply to convey the idea that, while it was refused to a numerous public body, it was granted, or at least used by a small number of persons in a private capacity, not being a public body. While writing, let me add that I trust the Government will see the propriety of closing the hall entirely, except for public meetings connected with the management of the Province, County, or Town, Thus no invidious distinctions will be made.—l am, &c., An Odd Fellow.