CHOOSING A MAYOR.
The prevailing opinion in the four centres with regard to tlie recent elections is that thepresent system is unsatisfactory, and various improvements are being advanced. Might I suggest, that there is no apparent rcasoiif except that the Act necessitates it, "why tie Mayor must bo elected by the public, la the smaller local bodies the elected nieuibers appoint their own chairman; Harbour Board, a body very similar in function to the City Council, has a chairman selected by I j ie members of the board; to go further still, the electors of Xew Zealand do not select their Prime Minister* but allow their elected representatives to appoint him. Surely in the cities and boroughs of the Dominion the electors could, with confidence, allow the men they have elected to appoint their own_ Mayor. Under this system, election costs in Xew Ze»i* land would be considerably lessened, and. had it been in vogue prior to last election, Auckland need not have lost the services of two undoubtedly good men, Messrs. A\ arnock Mi Bloodworth. E.B.C.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 8
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177CHOOSING A MAYOR. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 8
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