THE CASE OF INSPECTOR SHEARMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9012, 27 March 1888, Page 3

THE CASE OF INSPECTOR SHEARMAN.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, Will you please insert the enclosed in your valuable paper, and oblige an old colonist. Does it not seem too absurd, too narrow-minded, or something overlooked, to allow our old and tried servant to be treated in the way that he has been. I refer to the case of Inspector Shearman, who has had at least 40 years' experience in the police, and was the chosen man taken from the Victorian Government on out application, and has since finished our work, with no thanks. lam not talking of one year's service, but of 26, during which neither his Government, friends, or enemies can say one deteriorating word against his management. His character has proved him throughout a sober, calm, steady, reserved (I might almost call him) statesman amongst the characters and natures he has had to deal with. Now, what is his reward* Apparently, by the papers, a .moment's notice to clear out, without any given reason, and I have actually got good proof that he really had only within five days' notice of suspension after 26 years of honest service. I am not writing for him or his. lam only calling on the public in general throughout New Zealand to inquire into the authority and justice of the mem-' bers we wish to represent us in our colony ; also to find out whether they have the right) under retrenchment to behave in sucn a. manner to old, worthy, and tried officers. I sincerely hope the public will take up.thia cause, and find out the justice of the case, for should not something soon be done ib will be very hard to choose our Parliamenj tary members in this hemisphere.—l am, i &c., An Coloxist ajsd Traveller,