OLD DOCUMENTS GIVEN TO THE WINDS.
TheTamworth News (N.&W.) complains of the party or parties who had to do with the dismantling of the old Laud Commissioner s quarters, at the aouth-east end of Peel street. Miscellaneous heaps of correspondence have been thrown out to be disported with by the wind, and many curious letters have fallen into the hands of "snap-pera-up of unconsidered trifles," by whom they might be used with very mischievous effect. If the old records were to be destroyed the destruction should have beeri by nre or some other effectual process. Several of tneie letters contain striking incidents in the career of « old hands » about Tamworth, official correspondence about tickets-of leave permission to marry certain "lags" suspected thieves and others to be watched, bssides many biographical details not meant for the public eye ; and it is scandalous they should have been allowed to be blown about wherever the wind jisteth. .Relatives of Borne of the parties mentioned in these documents are still living in this locality, and it is hard for these that their progenitors' antecedents of 30 or 40 years ago should be faked. UD at this tima of Axv '
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Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 17
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195OLD DOCUMENTS GIVEN TO THE WINDS. Otago Witness, Issue 1320, 17 March 1877, Page 17
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