MUNICIPAL BY-ELECTION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19986, 22 July 1930, Page 13

MUNICIPAL BY-ELECTION.

it TO THE BDITOB Of THE PBB3S gjj jt jj to be hoped that the citiB0 interested in the return of Mr Mc- * fffiiinn as Citizens' candidate for the ' forthcoming by-election on Wednesday.. " July 23rd, will not take the chances of Mr Thurston's return too cheaply. The Labour Party will leave no stone unturned to secure" Mr Thurston s return- The insinuation that Mr JVlcLachlan ia using this by-election as a stapping-stone to Parliamentary k 0 * 1 " . owi is precisely what, the Labour Party are doing themselves. There are several reasons why it would not ba_ in the best interests of the City to increase Labour representation on the City Council. One reason is that, the Labour people are very liberal in parting with ratepayers' money, and if they should in the future secure a majority on the Council,'it will be another return of "spoils to the victors." The last chapter of Labour rule has left iti l -mark in increased indebtedness, which the ratepayers are called upon i to make good. It may be undignified to t refer to a man's calling, but since the t Labour Party have stated that the rej ttfrn of a lawyer would be bad for the; i (Sty; I would say it would be infinite- } \j worse to return a Union .secretary. secretaries are .tli©. "one-eyed wdtets" of belligerent-Trade Unionists f&f».thw Dominion. Did we not have B&pty-fivo of them as delegates to l|K]ate Industrial conference appoints f|j by the Reform Party, when in ofjflfeH Their spokesman threw out the. WKmwt: to all the r othe^del^gat^s we kll~ ■mgh" " If that is not a one-eyeS |«riness proposition, I should like to Jem what is. The ancients, either in .tStbie or fact, had their "One-eyed Crtlcps," and they were looked upon as j£m prone. We have them to-day, and ' Smve dangerous too; especially when Jafeget* the power to handle either natiwal or local revenues. The Citizens' Moeiation should bo as earnest in the 1 Jjniring by-election as they were . in jjtnnag a seat on the Council for Cr. June*.—Yours, etc., B 4', July 21st, 1930.