LET THE DISMISSAL, ETC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3947, 2 June 1913, Page 4

LET THE DISMISSAL, ETC.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—lt sems to me “Onlooker” is obsessed with the idea that Mr_ A. J. Paterson is a royal martyr. Now, mv private opinion is that Mr Paterson’s is shaking hands with himself for having got out or .an impossible situation. What lam sorry for is that I ever voted for the present Mayor. lam told on excellent authority the bungling at the last was due to the Mayor 'failing to carry out his part of the programme. For a man to state that three weeks’ intimacy with the Engineer was sufficient to satisfy him is tantamount to saying it takes very little to talk him, the Mayor, over. I know this much, and please understand I am no passing politician : An engineer who could not. or would not, for instance, recognise the flaws in the Gentle Annie Quarry should be relieved of office. If people would go round and see things tor themselves thev would probably find their opinions change considerably. ' One thing I am convinced: Other forces are at work than those that appear on the surface and_ some day the people of Gisborne will wake up to the fact that there are such cases as “blind leaders attempting to lead the blind.”—l am, etc., “IXLOOKER."