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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6501, 16 February 1882, Page 3

Mr Meech, as a candidate for Harbor Board honors, has published an address. He bases his claim for support upon a variety of reasons, chief amongst them being bis great age and varied experience. And the man must be old —very old. He says he has been a citizen of Wellington “ forty years, and connected with the docks and shipping for i much longer period.” Now, a person is scarcely regarded as a citizen until he is old enough to exercise the right to vote, and that is 21 years. 40 plus 21 •=6l. But Mr Meech avers that he has been connected with docks and shipping for a much longer period, and as there are no docks in Wellington, be must have resided elsewhere during the longer period. What does he mean by this 1 Bless ns and save us, does be wish us to infer that he assisted at .the building of the ark ? Is he controlled by the spirit of Noah, or does he merely wish us to understand that his connection with shipping merely dates back to Captain Cook’s voyaging, say 120 years or so ? This would bring Mr Meeoh's age up to about TWO HUNDBiD ! The opportunity of electing such a Methnsaleh is not to be neglected. Put him on the Harbor Board, ye citizens, he will be an admirable set-off to - young Lyon I Asmodeus,” in the N.Z. Mail,