SECRET MEETINGS OP THE ...HARBOUtt BOAiHD. \ .

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3226, 13 September 1879, Page 2

SECRET MEETINGS OF THE HARBOUR BOARD.

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Sib,— Yoiir contemporary this morn, in)? expresses , its sorrow tbaji, Mr. Benjamin Wells should have been pub into suoh an equivocal position as he has been by the condaot of his col. leagues in the Harbour Board, and considers that it is not, ;mgkgrjaQimouß on your part to rofor to any little in. consistency that may Appear to the public between his past writings and present actions. What the late Board did he considers \v«s decidedly wrong 1 , but what tho present Board is doing is no business of anybodies— 'and therefore he does not euro a " flip of tho fiugors " what id suid of him or his colleagues now ho is a member, and has " the manipulation of the publio money," and can take " a trip to Auckland at the publio expense." Sir, I some months sinoo, pointed out that if the men who form the present Board were elected that our harbour would be lost to us. I was no prophet, but I saw what was coming, and knew if such men as Mr. Wells got on the Board that the money would, be muddled away, and that we should see no result for it. The loan is being wasted in snlaries and a pleasure trip of the engineer to Eug(and, whilst another party I hear is to be appointed to act as his substitute whilst the engineer is away. But wo are not allowed to know why all this is being done. The publio. are to be kept in the dark whilst tho money is squandered in salaries. It is time the

publio awoke from its apathy, and demanded those men to resign their seats, as they obtained them by false prttences. — I am, <fco., Progress.

Ttcostß more to revenge wrongs than it does to bear them. An Odd Trick was recently played at

dog show. A lody sent her pet, and put tho prohibitive price of a hundred pounds upon it. Poar to her it was, as a child. A rough fellow, after eying the animal for some time, went to the secretary and offered the hundred pounds in cash down. "But," said the secretary.—" Don't' but 1 me, master ; Tcan sell the dog again, I think'" was the reply. " There's the money and there's my card — it ain't no dog-stealer's bitof paste-board." The lady was com. municated with. Tears and horror ! Then a communication was made to the msn. Reply — " Weil, I'm disappointed about the dog ; my customer won't have him, and I'll shoot him out of re. venge if I can't make a twenty-pound note out of him." Seguel — he made a twenty.pound note.

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