OBSTRUCTIVENESS. STB UCTIVJENESS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume X, Issue 2767, 29 April 1876, Page 2

OBSTRUCTIVENESS. STB UCTIVJENESS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — Who is His Worship and Councillors Chad wick and Nathan that they should flout and turn with disdain from the Harbor Board Committee — or who indeed are those who constitute the miserable majority of the Town Council now opposing the interests of the district at large ] They are nobodies whom nobody knows. Stop a dozen men in tho street and nine will probably be unable to inform you of the name of the Councillor ivho represents his Ward — perhaps would not recognise him if they met him in the flesh. And yet the whole district is to be ruled by these bumptious little bodies, whose unadorned eloquence occasionally enlivens the columns of our newspapers. They cannot by any means be considered as good specimens of local government, and their composition is certaiuy unworthy of imitation, and their proceedings, not to put too fine a. point upon them, want dignity. If a respectable man manages to get amqng them he fedls decidedly uncomfortable ; a bee in a wasp's nest spends a happier life compared to his, and if ho ventures to talk sense to them, or suggests that their language might be a little more Chesterfieldian without being loss vigorous, and their proceedings more dignified if less slangy, this miserable majority would, if possible, annihilate him straight off, And these are the people who would rule and dictate to us ; these are they who do not consider themselves called upon to recognise a Harbor Board Committe at all. Well, as you very properly pointed out la3t night, we do not want their awuil recognition. That they have some sort of a claim to a strip of the foreshore from the Bridge to Churton's Creek may be asserted ; but that they— thanks to the blundering of Mr W. H. Watt— have any legal position will probably be denied, because the General Government, without the slightest reference to the Council, mean to help themselves to a slice of the most valuable portion for the Railway Station, aud it is therefore likely that the district can .obtain a Harbor Boar I Act to include the whole of the jforeshoro, should the Council not accept the common sense view as expressed by Councillor Farrah. I am, Sir, Not one of The Harbor Board Committee. April 29, 1876.