MUNICIPAL BUSINESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22720, 5 November 1935, Page 4

MUNICIPAL BUSINESS

§ TO THE EDITOR. % Sib, —The proposal that a room be available at the Town Hall for the discussion M financial matters in private appears to be designed to meet a long-felt want. The position as it is at present is very unsatisfactory, indeed. I still remember an interview I had some time ago when 1 had good Reason to attend to a financial fatter of importance to myself. I was asked my business by a mere lad and, after thinking I had finished my interview, was told to wait until the accountant came. By this time fully half a dozen were alongside me, and when he came I had to begin again and give my account of the whole business. This was quite bad enough in front of those waiting. but to be humiliated by this servant iirith his loud voice and excitable manner was to me the addition of insult to injury. In fact, I was so humbled that I. quite forgot my business, and was so glad to get away that I have never to this day remembered what actually happened. If this is how servants of the council do business I shall be only too glad to have iny interview privately. If Cr M'Millan l|an arrange an alteration it will be much appreciated by the public.—l am, etc., * Civility.