CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7339, 28 May 1885, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

COUNCILLOR GOLDIE AND THE LAW BOOKS. TO TH* EDITOR. ' Sib, —Your correspondent " Civis" knows perfectly well that in my last letter I did not blame an official for carrying out the instructions of the Council in ordering " Badger's Statutes," but for exceeding his . instructions by having placed upon each volume the name of a councillor, and then informing the Press that certain councillors.' had already had their names placed upon these books, when he knew perfectly well that such was not the case. With respect to the statement that I have made a row to get rid of a certain official, the statement is a* , untrue as many others inspired by the same person. ' The only promise that I made when entering the Council bearing Upon this matter was this, that - I should en* deavour to manage the affairs of the Council as I would my own business. _ IfI carry out this promise, I must at all times endeavour to get rid of those officials whom I believe to be unworthy of the trust reposed in them. With respect to the statement that some of our councillors are not WortU half of 19s per year, it is very evident that the ratepayers at large do not share ia tho opinion of your correspondent, for if they bad they would not have sent them to the Council with such largo majorities over their opponents. At any rate, the most, if not all of them, have been successful men of business. That is very much more than can bo said of some of the officials whom your correspondent looks upon with so much favour. As to what I shall do with the book when I leave the Council, that may be safely left for the present, as I have no intention of giving op the position for some years to come.—i am, &c„ D. Goldie.

[The above letter is written in a very bad spirit, and Mr. Goldie is behaving most ungenerously to the officers of the CounoiL la the above letter he says (and he has said the same thing in previous letters) that an official " had far exceeded his instructions; by having placed upon each volume the name of a councillor, and then informing the Press that certain councillors had already had their names placed upon these books, when he knew perfectly well that such was not the case." This statement is not true. —Ed.] .