Mr William Booth and the Harbor Board.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1787, 27 January 1886, Page 3

Mr William Booth and the Harbor Board.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sib, —Will Mr Booth please explain how it happened that he, as the Wairarapa representative at the Harbor Board, moved for the late reduction in the charge for pressing the wool on the wharves previous to shipment. This charge was always met by the ship, and came out of freight. We wool growers did not pay it; a point which Mr Booth evidently was not aware of. We only paid freight, and the charge for pressing the wool was met by the ship. Now I should like to know why Mr Booth thus threw £4OO to £SOO into the ships hands, during tue past season ? Or perhaps he will tell us the actual amount allowed. If Mr Booth would refrain from poshing himself into positions concerning the business and details of which he is ignorant. I should have allowed this matter topassover, but I cannot do this, as I have resolved always to call attention to his mistakes. In county matters he usually goes wrong, and it is just as well to pall him op. This foolish allowance to wealthy shipping companies is quite on a par with the part Mr Booth played in the questions of county, amalgamation, a county rate, the management of our Freez ing Company, Ac,, Ac., Ac. And I would ask h'a now in the present matter, whether it would not have been just as well for him to have enquired as to who paid these woolpressing charges, before making the allowance ? When a man will act in other peoples’ business he should make himself acquainted with the details of that business. It would be about as wise a proceeding upon mv part for me to interfere in the affaire of Mr Booth’s sawmill, as for Mr Booth to interfere in wool matters. I am, Ac., Coleman Phillips. Dry Biver, Jau. 21.

P.S. Our freightage was sufficiently high without making this allowance. No allowance indeed should have been made without a corresponding reduction in freight. Besides, my opinion is that the costly works of tbe Uaibor Board necessitated this charge to tlit ship. I hope Mr Booth will not act so foolishly again.