THE MAYORAL ELECTION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13427, 14 April 1944, Page 4

THE MAYORAL ELECTION

Sir, My supporters did not mention Mr \ him or infer anything’ He has stood l oya n y ? b °»t monetary reform and h!'*' le % the respect of every In future I will 110 t " 'V levs, that are not signed’V” mat. *h° has „„ t the " »t connottons i s unworn' "‘b tion.—l am, etc.. ' 0 COBb^ Sir, —Your Temient, is a mtle «. arithmetic, tor accord J 'V computation Mr Burnett I „ ls old, when in fact h e ts young, or two years Winston Churchill. ,!s h

There is an implication k correspondent's letter that \\ nett is too old tor the oßk e * a nod his tactics ot oh*** h.s age Is a weak method ticising, or rather, attacking * pi rant for Mayoral honours" while the penis in my h and like to comment on another f rir cism of Mr Burnett, ft i s has no property interests here n, may be so, but he has interests in other places i„ v Zealand - Personally, I feel that sense of responsibility, Colnbi " with experience and a outlook eminently fit him to fin , t j Mayoral position with success J am, etc.,.

CHARLES DAYEV

Sir, —In justice to Mr Buvuett, i feel that your correspondent, Tennent, should not go unanswered, Mr Burnett left the public life 0 ! Wanganui when he came to Tanranga in 1935, nine years ago, not 25 years ago, and when he left tie Wellington Land Board after sir years’ service on that board as & elected representative of some 4000 Crown tenants of which some 2000 were returned soldiers of the Great War. His valuable services on that board are known and recognised by all returned men of the last war. His intimate knowledge of all matters connected with land settle ment have been amply proved by his services in regard to native development in this- district and right through the Bay of Plenty, while it Parliament. —I am, etc., “OLD DIGGER,"