THE CANAL LEAGUE AND MAYORAL ELECTION.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14324, 9 April 1912, Page 10

THE CANAL LEAGUE AND MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO Tin: kditor of" "the press." Sir, —Now that we are on tho eve of another Mayoral election, will you kindly permit mc space in your valuable paper to ask my fellow members of the Canal League if it is not quite time they should bestir themselves in the matter of bringing out a candidate of the right stamp. The mushroom candidates announced in the papers are setting aside the works of the League; and insist on the continuance of this city as a mere inland town. The last Mayoral election was fought by two redoubtable, champions of the League, Messrs T. E. Taylor and C. Allison, ami admittedly no man in Christchurch could have defeated either of them. They were the first and only occupants of the Mayoral chair {particularly Mr Allison) who ever troubled, themselves about the problem of making Chn'stchureh a great distributing centre by giving us a waterway to the sea. They hold, and lightly, that the Mayor and city councillors, as a body, were responsible to the citizens for bringing .about this great object, and no doubt hail Mv Taylor lived, he would have devoted the remainder of his life to the attainment of that end. I trust, bowever, we may still hope that Mr Allison may yet be induced to allow himself to, be nominated as a candidate. As a consistent advocate of the canal lie lias been treated with but scant courtesy of late, but that can all be rectified. He has but to declare himself to be placed at the head of the noil. —Yours, etc., "\Y. L. CHRYSTALL. Richmond. April 4th.