THE WARDENS.
To tlie Editor of the Otago Daily Times.
Sir—Please permit me, through the medium of your paper, to ask upon wbat principle the Provincial authorities carry out the recommendations of the late Goldfields Commission %
After dispensing with the services of three competent gentlemen, they immediately appoint Mr V.Pyke as a warden, and in order' to find a district for. him, they remove Mr Robinson from here, a gentleman who is much: respected, and whose intimate knowledge of the district is of great advantage to the miners and inhabitants generally.
The whole affair has been managed so silently aiid rapidly (I had almost said surreptitiously)'that there has been little time to'remonstrate, although a memorial: objecting to it has been hastily prepared and forwarded to the proper authorities, with about four ; hundred signatures, a; number which would have been doubled "i or trebled had there been more time.
Such reward for past services is suf- I ficient to disgust any gentleman of ability with the idea of taking an appointment in the public service under the Provincial authorities, and furnishes another link in the already long chain of evidence against Provincial Institutions. —I am, &c. ■, A Miner. Dunstan, 29fch August, 1868.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 2054, 4 September 1868, Page 3
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