AN UNACCOUNTABLE OVERSIGHT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11876, 2 November 1893, Page 3

AN UNACCOUNTABLE OVERSIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — My attention has been drawn to "your own correspondant's " report of Mr Hutchison's meeting at Patea in which 18 stated that " from some surely unaccountable oversight (the a.'ayor being present) Mr R. A. Adams was voted to the chair." I think it is only due to myself and Mr Hutchison to supply what was wanting— and known to everyone except perhaps "your own" viz— that the present Mayor being considered a probable candidate for Patea it would have been infra dij to ask him to act as Chairman to a declared opponent. If the Mayor was not spoken of as a candidate I should have considered it an insult to the people of Patea to have acted as Chairman when the Mayor was present. But "your own" is blessed with no such squeamishness, for he pre sided as Chairman of a political meeting when I was Mayor, and was present and was not a probable candiddte. If my acceptance of the Chairmanship was "unaccountable" what must "your own correspondent's "be without a shadow of excuse. Another of those studied insults to the town carried out by " your own " was when the Patea Kihibition was on. He thsn ignored the Mayor altogether and proposed an outsider to do all the functions, although the Mayor was taking an active patt in getting the thing up. How is that for '■ unaccountable oversight" Oh, nothing— only that the Mayor of those days did not belong to the set— and nothing that he could do then or now meets with their approval. A case in point "your own" reports on Saturday another meeting of the football club— when the Mayor and tho President is ignored in favour of a much more suitable Chairman. " Your own " need not rave about "unaccountable over-" sight" in this case.— l am, &c, R. A. Adams,