Harbor Matters.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 291, 27 April 1889, Page 2

Harbor Matters.

[TO TSE EDITOR.; Sir,—Can you tell me what has come over the ratepayers of this district that they remain altogether silent in regard to the extraordinary circumstances which have recently been brought under their notice ? One member of the Harbor Board feels the matter so keenly that be publicly challenges another member to resign, and still no murmur from the ratepayers. They heed not that they may scon have to pay the costs, and probably high damages, in a heavy lawsuit that has been forced on for no earthly purpoto than to gratify what ? To gratify what! Lot the ratepayers only think and weigh matters for themselves. I think some way may be found of visiting the costs upon those who are the means of imposing the burden on tho ratepayers. Why should we be forced to rq-jeeze our«elvrs for the purpose ot diverting ths driblets into the pockets of lawyer friends. Ths Harbor Board has spent as muoh in law ss would make a small fortune for some of us, and still they want to go on in ths same old way. Does that way suit ns ? I am sure it doesn't, but are we going tostand it any longer? One member of the Harbor Board has challenged another member. Why, then, should we not take the cue, and instead of formulas ting challenges and so on, make a strong demand that this kind ot thing shall be knocked on the head. It does not matters button who we have on the Board so long as the work is done properly—it ia better to have the biggest duffsrs we can select in the community than to be represented by men who, :o prove their own undoubted smartness, go top 'ar, and then instead of getting their own ingers burnt, make victims of ths ratepayers. I say it is scandalous, and I am ashamed of ny fellow ratepayers.—l am, &0., a Taxpayer. ~