The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-22 00:00:00

CORR ESPON DEN CE.

Ire Irish it to be distinctly understood that by inserting
letters in giseolunin,tre do not thereby identify ourselreb
with the opi 'dumb of our Corresponeknts.

THE ALLEGED wANr OF PUBLIC SPIRIT
AMONGST THE COMMISSIONERS.
li, the Editor of the" Observer."

Sim—Your correspondent " Amiens," in a letter which '
was published in your journal Met week, says that I
could not have read the reports of the Commissioners'
meetings which appeared in your paper, eel should have
seen that those gentlemen had done all in their power to
prevent the removal of the post otlice to its present situ- ,
alum ; arid also charges me with saying that the Corn. .
missioners have nu public spirit. I can only retort that
your paper is the only local one that I take in, and con-
sequently is the source from which I have derived my :
information, not only as to the proceedings at the Cam-
miscionere' meetings, but also as to the public meeting
to which I referred in my letter to you. If your corres-
pondent had read my letter as he should have done, he
would have seen that it was only some of the COMMili.
shiners whom I accused of a want of public spirit in the
affair of the removal of the post office, and I cited their
conduct on that occasion as sprout. To further prove
my assertion, I wid give a brief resolute of the facts.
When it became known that the putt office was about to
be removed a public meeting was called for the purpose
of deciding as to what site would be most convenient for
the general public. At this meeting Mr. Allsop (the then
Chairman of the Board of Commissioners) presided, and
after some little discussion it ais almost unanimously
decided—the only dissentients be leg some few Commis-
sioners who, as I stated before had places of business in
Lower High-street—that a central position would be
most convenient for the great bulk of the inhabitants,
and Mr. Bagetee shop was mentioned as the most desir-
able site. Notwithstanding that tee aforesaid Commis-
*loners were defeeted by so large a majority 01 the rate-
payers at the public meeting alluded they managed to
steal • march on their brother Commissioners, and at
the next meeting, when all the usual business was con.
eluded mid the rest of the members had left the Board,
thinking there was not anything of importance to be
transacted, they palmed • resolution to the effect that the
Board thought the regent site would be the best adapted
for the post office. Now, in the face of these facia, and
I challenge contradiction of soy statement I. have here
made, how your correspondent can say that the Com-
, elision:men have done all they could to get the post office
removed to a central sit en, I cannot imagine. I will
admit that some of the sot ; but that others did not,!
think the foregoing is conclusive testimony..
I hope that sin another occasion your correspondent
will peruse my letter with a little more care, and then
perhaps he will not make such recklees charges, which
nu wilt Mid impossible to aubatautiate.
I am, Sir, yours truly,
NEMO NOMAD.
fitourbridge, Oct. 18th, 1870.