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WRIT AGAINST THE HARBOR BOARD. THE ENGINEER’S TURN NOW. CLAIM FOR THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED POUNDS. UNHAPPY RATEPAYERS J The action taken by the Harbor Board in regard to Mr Thomson, the Engineer, has given rise to a new development which may not have been altogether unexpected. We hear that the Board has been served with notice of a writ, by the Engineer, claiming £3,200 as damages for notice o.f dismissal which was given him by the Board.
We believe that it has already cost the Harbor Board over £5OO in law expenses, and the ratepayers would probably prefer seeing these large amounts spent in employment to working men, from whose labors there would be an equivalent gain, than to be thrown away in this sort of thing.
No matter how the action goes the rate* payers must ba losers to a large amount.
As the Board does not meet until nearly a month hence matters will have to dirft on in their ordinary course until then, or until the ratepayers themselves take the affair in hand,
How many sections of the breakwater will ba left out because the money has been Oaten up in law expenses will be a question that may want an answer at an early date.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 286, 13 April 1889, Page 2
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212MORE LITIGATION. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 286, 13 April 1889, Page 2
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