CITY COUNCIL AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19917, 2 May 1930, Page 17

CITY COUNCIL AFFAIRS.

If ' TO THE EDITOR O.F THE PRBSS 5 ';Bir,—-Afany of your readers-will thank wn for your short editorial of the 29th I Jfirts«n "City Council Committees," § i|l?iwj)ecially for the declaration that j?, tie <stjzens "want the councillors,to sit i table as a business afldr-wel- | fare committee without any policy but I tie general good of the City." That * exactly the strong feeling of tt 'IS increasing number of ratepayers. - 'j? There are two things with which we '/ ''tse- ? b.ecoming completely "fed up/' f there''is the abominable party spirit f flfhich' lias crept into the Council with j. • i)» «'ftermath of strife and bitterness, f '' - B?**y bickerings, and unseemly recrimi- ' Imttldns, and discourteous and .nndignipersonal criticisms, many of them unfortunately, .from the ' 3fryoral chair. This is a condition of f Stairs of which we have good cause to ' .£ 18 both weary and.ashamed. There is, li® <, » tllo Daclt "^ oor roothod adopted by 'WbpncSocialist councillors to attain I f ,ip 1 which "cannot fie accomplished in [ > w»n conference at the Council's tabic. iJEake, for example, the municipal milk ' jrauSine, and the delegation from tho "JMjrrjMilk Producers' Association, sugA"tgßnl£ tlbat^Be--Association- undertake 4sif supply the Council with milk'to be |.,|MOTta|4»nteeL- by . Council in. sealed f ifHWtSuftto tetailefs, operating in allotted (,^™K4te-•iW3*^JP I 'o^ u o.ora , Association adW' ■WK' l f l '' ttM -" It looks suspicious- {? back-door method,' instigated i ■'* of finally foisting ► ■ Wljtetejpfele of the City the proposed ? - scheme: '- I: -tt»Pdent that an increasing numl',' ) femrtfcepayers are becoming weary M ,%'frwd of this 'spirit and these b"\< ipStodk* and will, when they get the %fcb-iefamuaity, indicate that this- state of 'shall cease and ' determine.— |13% ' etC " - BATEPAYEB. Imhtndl 30th, ia3o. , k#V " •