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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4774, 27 January 1887, Page 3

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mu3t have done in the circumstances. The action taken was cutting oft the nose to spite the face. Even without the minute authorising him he should have done the same, because it would never have entered his mind to let it go by default. Of course Mr Matthewson's explanation could be taken for what it was worth. It was useless to notice what he had said about the wrong things done. Neither Mr Matthewson or any other member aaid a word against the aite at khe time. Mr Chambers : It was on Mr Matthewaon'a motion it was put on the present aite ! The Chairman said fully three fourths of their decisions had been come to unanimously. There was not a single expostulation about the site, and there had been no outcry till long after. Mr Matthewson : I opposed setting asido the £25,000. The Chairman : We were all opposed to it, but there was no choice. Mr Dickson said he had been opposed to the site and the £25,000. Mr Matthewson said if he had used any improper terms, or made insinuations he apologised. Mr Chambers said Montaigne asserted that some men limited their belief by their own capacity, and not the capacity of others. They sab down hard and fast in their chairs and said. "Wo think this, and we will not think anything else." Mr Matthewson came of a race that was rather proud of their harcl-heudedncss and stubbornneßS, and ho was a good representative of his nation. Mr Sfovwright said it was long after the plans were approved that anyone found fault with the aito. The Chairman : Many months. As to the £25,000 wo all submitted to that with n very bad grace, but as it ha 3 turned out I think it wa3 tho host thing we could do. Mr Townley : No one had more to do with rivettini,' the works where they are than Mr Mafcthewson. Meeting after meeting I opposed it, and proposed the Board should go on tho rocks and inspect themselves, and aeo if we could not do . away with all tho timber work, buc not a member would go. Mr Matthewson opposed. I sent a letter to the Chairman urging that it was better to go farther up, and get the stono round the beach way, and Mr Matthewson never said a word for it. When the plan was put on the table he hardly looked at it. He was quite sure it was where he wanted, and it was on his motion that it was adopted. It is only recently he has been opposed to it and found it was not tho place he wanted. Mr Matthewson : I did not know it was ao near in Bhore. Motion carried.