APPOINTMENT OF CURATOR AT TEMUKA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19806, 23 May 1934, Page 4

APPOINTMENT OF CURATOR AT TEMUKA

To the Editor of “ The Timaru Herald ” Sir, —May I ask for a little space in your valuable paper to air my views on a grave mistake that has evidently been made by the Mayor and certain •councillors of Temuka. The position of assistant curator was advertised some few weeks ago, and closed last week. There were sixty odd applications, and their references and qualifications were gone though, or supposed to, at the meeting of the Council sitting as a Domain Board. How did they arrive at their decision has amazed not only myself, but I may say hundreds of other Temuka people. They could not have sorted them worse even if there were only two of them—one with first class credentials and life experience, and one with practically none. I don’t suppose our Domain will.suffer much, because there are plenty of expert gardeners and fence cutters on the unemployed that work in the Domain on their working days. If it is any criterion of the way our new curator can cut a fence, for instance, they have only to go to Birkett Street and see the fence round “Banana Joe’s” gardens. I am given to understand that there were several returned soldiers in for the job, and good men, too, but no, one man had to get it hook or crook.—l am, etc., A—N—D. P.S.—“Banana Joe” is a name that a gardener of the town goes by.