MR MACKAY IN REPLY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7270, 26 July 1893, Page 1

MR MACKAY IN REPLY.

[to the editor.]

Sib, —With your permission I wish, briefly, to reply to Mr Flatman’e letter contained in your issue of the 18th inst., in which he complained of unparliamentary language used by me at the last meeting of the Geraldine County Council towards the Geraldine Boad Board, of which he is chairman, and then kindly took pity on my ignorance and drafted a resolution for me as follows: •* This Council censure the Geraldine Boad Board for their fearful cheek." That is allshort and sweet. I have tried in vain to find the point of the joke, unless it is in sending in this account. If the Council bad paid the account then it might be considered a firsto:ass joke. lam sorry that Mr Flatman cannot see that every part of the county is entitled to a fair share of the rates. The Orari bridge has recently been put in thorough repair by the Council. 2fow it is the Tengawai bridge; next meeting it will be some other bridge. While advocating repairs to the Orari bridge, Mr Flatman would of course consider that I was only doing my duty; the Tengawai is quite a different thing. Spending money so far from Geraldine is nothing short of “ bias " I am told, and that I should not sit on any public body. lam sorry an able useful man like Mr Flatman should take such a narrow view of a public matter. I am, &c., B. Mace ay. July 28nd, 1893.