The Superintendency Election.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 122, 1 November 1873, Page 2

The Superintendency Election.

' JhloCtOIA ut’ till? h’OVi:ii,‘C of j An ck I a ml. EfNTTVKM EN, — Et appear:? to mo that it in** tj now become oh.-rcr dd.c I but tins control of Auckland Provinci A .riV.-s ?] ou!d be t ran-horn'd fo the ’n.'.nils -it other.? thou those by ■whom the Province has been governed in the }-;.A. Wj; h e» don-lid resources ia laud, coal, gold, iron, and other in if era Is — with a cinnate uu»ur~ <1 1 • i> v 1 . t . ' w .rid, and with 11 raurdy and industrious poroihtt ion of 00,010 to 70,000 j people, who pay some £300.000 per annum iti j taxer, i.i one shape or another, for purposes of ! g.iod government, put-lie works, &c., it is sadden• I ing to find that- we, as a Province, are not | only in-iking little or no advance toward* per* j nuuK-nt prosper!’;, - , but Inr 1 u ? uivy p -bits we j are artualiy rervogradiug. ; I I attribute this strife of things to misgovernj merit, tho ii! Judged expenditure of public money, i and extravagance in the past, v; hii-h have entailed j upon <hc community grievous burdens it.: t.he form i of public debts, fur which interest and sinking 1 funds have' now to be provided by oppressive tariff ; dr,ties and other furors cl' taxation, j B:> fur he-i this sd ute of things already gone that at the present moment tho LVirioei.u rui horities of Auckland ecu at their whs’ cud, and find it exceedingly difiicrdt and cmbarrussing to provide adequate means even for such au important object as Kd uc-d ion. Tiiis Province is placed at a further disadvantage by ri-.of-n of tho manner it leas been dealt with by the General Government iu tho expenditure of the large loans which were negotiated on the credit- of the whole Colony for purposes of Immigration a,d Public Works. Although we in Auckland arc chargeable with the repay meat of about one-four' h 0 -i’*- of these loans, and although wo contribute in about that pro port ion towards providing in to re A- and sinking fund;;- th'-rt-on, yet, owing to waul of uuiieu action by cur Stipe pin-tendc-nt and represent a* ires, only a very - small portion cf the borrowed money has been employed for our benefit. Our Ib’criucial rovcriua for the ensuing year will probably be under £50,000, an ! out of tins sum wo have to maintain our Police, Gaols, Hospitals, Lunatic A-. 1 .. -, Sick and 'Do" i’uto, Harbours, Ac. ; which cost us some £3s,dob per annam. Aft or paying for Provincial salaries- and departmental expenses on the present scale, little or nothing will, therefore, remain for aid Co Jfoad -Boards, tor Bridges, Perries, Tramways at the Goldfield;, Ac. ; and i:i view of this ctate of things, I believe it 13 .our first duty to reduce those Provincial salaries and departmental expenses to an amount proportionate to our altered means.

Oil!' next duty i-z !o require, at the baud-- of cur Represent-;tire?, that they unite in demandeng from the Assembly and the Government that justice shall no longer be denied to lias Province in the matter of the expenditure of the money borrowed upon cur credit, conjointly with that of the rest of the Colony. 1 ass-re to teeouio Superintendent of the Province that I may bo in a position to giro praci had effect ‘ -o Co- above viewy and that there may b-’ souv combined effort maria to bring abo;P a diJJ'-w-t state ot tilings—that more vhadty may bimparled ;o our industries, such us alining. Agricultural Pursuits. Trade and CT aimer,.-.', and M-uvufaet lires. if, iiowcver, you are consent to go on ns of yore, and elect a politician cl the o'd Auckland school, I think you will iiud, when too late, that additional burd, imome tuxati n; must speedily bo resorted to. You will also probably find that the old system of Donocninaliou.ii EdaeaLion will be intrOiUiced into this I’rc-'ineo ; a sysfun so often used ns uu instrimif nt of favoritism to one party, ur;.J oppression to another ; a system so product ivs of sect - ,; bn jV.-h-usies and bk-Kenrgs that it has bir-.’ii nba.udcx.ed by more advanced communities in favour of a National Secular Educational bystocn. .Minimi you restore the old regime to power, you null u'.so lind that llu» control ot the ; Police wiU soon he transferred to too Provincial > Authorities, to ho used it was before, for j party and political purj.o.-es. ; During tins election contest, I have been treated i with ujuainicss hy a portion of the Auckland ; press ; nut, as many of yon v. re aware, the persons whom these papers represent are interested in reiihrodmung and ooudnumg the state of things which lew led the Province into its present po.-i- ---; t ion. ijy the uirHc ot political pswor end mitronugc in too past, they then,solves ho re been oiitiMod t o prosper, tv o iHie I’rovj 1 ,ce bus so languished that it can hardly be in a worse position ; and it now rests with you, Electors, to s:vy, oy y,iur votes, whether you will entrust your uu, urs toy r.itul h.er pciiod of four years to the aid i lands, or whether you wid give me your con fid on cc and supii-ud, lieu 1 may, wit.il the aic of a wcil , Oeofca rovincini Oounctl,be enabled io im emirate | a change towards a be?ter and healthier era. I lx you do me the honour to elect me, I will ) :: pr-ly ny.yscir dii’genUy and strenuously to eiT.et ! M't renciinuud in Provincial salaries 'and other i departmental expenses ; to obtain justice for the j ii ot iiic.* ;tt ;nc nanus ot the Dcncrai Cioviiruivir-nt ; j :’iid to provide permanently for the uuyj i liv.nv ;iji, to curry out a, system of Education, { wunenr resorting to any such obuoeions and ! as the present- Kctucanon Tax. 1 1 aa, hnhlonu n, . \ ours fait lifallv, | A ’-I. DAiiGAYILLh.