THE CLAIMS OF NOYES BROTHERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 11

THE CLAIMS OF NOYES BROTHERS.

I At & meeting of the Dunedin City Council on December 4 the "following letter was read from Messrs Noyes Bros: — | [- Dunedin, December 2. 1907. I } We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 28th ult., conveying resolution of the council. We have just cause for complaint that forbearance on our part j lias been most ungenerously construed into an indication that we lay undue stress upon j the moral aspect of the case. Even had we done ao'wo might well be forgiven, for a

seven-years' resider.ee in this city has us no grounds for assuming that the ordinary^ ethics of commercial morality are not recognised in Dunedin. Certainly our relations with the City Council have not induced that belief. However, we are fully satisfied both with the legality and with the morality of 0U5... C1aim,,, and we have no alternative save to glace "the ' matter in the hands of our solicitor.- Hie council have been told that Iwe wtfuld not resort to the court. If this I influenced them in their decision they have been misled. .The firm are already heavy losers in fl»e discharge of our ■duties as servants at ihe^-figzpbiation, but we ue determined to* "'successively apply for justice . to every tribunal constituted to administer t&e law. of the realm. I Notes Bbos. (peT F. R. Shepherd). ' Cr Burnett asked if the language used in the letter was respectful; if not, the letter should not be received. The Mayor 6aid that ho thought there was nothing in the letter which could b< taken exception to. There was no reflec* tion on the corporation contained in it. The letter was received. ,