THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 9

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

'Sir/Trliiyour ' ; 'issud.' of: "Monday. last,'' you' appear' to derivo somo satiafactioii, .from tho, fact/that there is to bb, v a' contest, for the' 'Mayoral\chaifc-; ' Sir,. I .'fail entirely- to. "see how the .present-:caSd. can. be considered a Icontest.. .< ; .Mr. 'Aitkert' has' already l held', tho. ofiico prior to Mr. Hislop, and if 1 remember, rightly, ;Mr.'' ;Duthie : bofotd v Mfl' v AitkonV N (jw* itj- appears i to, mo, 1 ;' that; .the Civic .'chair. .is ■thb.'stile property/ of. Mossrs/;Dulhie,' His-. ■ lop :aiid Aitkin,and what I, in.common witM maiiy /more ' citizens,. desire to . ' see, is ail : ehtirely'.new...man,' oiie, with. a larger. /dcgrco' , of,'iDem'ocracy.; :.,'The;threo gentlemen, names 1 hav a' mentioned, /■practicallj*.'. belong -.to-/the I same /politics,>.heri<;d;it'.is/they'tako, /turn 1 aboiit;! in/ occupying -./ tho tracy of'tho City V..' ' • V i v''' ,// ; -.' f . .' j. 'As;. to_ Mr. -Hislop's deyotion ' to.. the ' rate-' payers' interests, • permit ,md. to point put- tlio' filthy; condition of the majority, of 'the foot-' f>aths. ; They are' in many casos only, '.paved' talf tho width -tlioy should' bo. ( Take tho fdotpatli'MiV 'Featherstoir;Street,- the.' one. on, the ndrt-li 'sido of the' General Post Officoj tho I ;6f..'..H9rooui i t'sj : ,'.'.why,,'. in : wot weather' the'y'drd '. perfect! quagmires'.,}'. Tho. rate's 'paid;,by the ratepayers .entitle'them, I presume, to/ something .'for their money, but what' I!■ ask-, ..do' they' gbt.P ';*. ;l > ra,ctical!y no- - tiling.' r They/pay'abater rate,'but'are' carefully watched lest- they should water a fow .'jijabpages,: inj.fact,'.' I know a caso of : an • old /pouplo, 1 wlio' ; : witlr tho exception of.', washing ,c]ay,,are/afraidto' use; ,'tlie ; '. ! water 'to keop. ;alivo a- few - vegetftbles.' /.' Ratepayers .-must :'not\cirecfc. ariy'.alteratiorts 'to their; own pro--perly without •' a.' permit.; •Ratepayers for- ■ s.ooth! , . Poor.'.wretchos, tlioy arc/ taxed.up to.'.tho : hiltj ' and; ;.unlcssthey, bestir them-; .selves they .will go; front bid to worse/-; Tho .ratepayers 'de-siro "a; bhango indeed, but. not; out of the .frying-pan/into ; tho; fire.'

will, oonclijtlo asking all right-minded imcn and 1 women',/.what''lias Mr.vHislop 'done?-. Echo answers, nothing!',: .His ohiof'.claim;, is his.mode of grahting.'lbans'to.other. Mitnidi--twl; todies, such, as the Karori transaction.. Th' that matter, P; ;M.. B.' Pisher'i dp-; .serves iwsir of the oppressed ratepapcr. ' In a ratepayers'have/nothing to-thanlc' Mr. Hislop for; and: for that reason desire a (change;' and : I sincerely trust ■ they ■ will prove the fact,- by asking.-sonie other, cik'rg>etic citizen to ; 'Contest.. the: Mayoralty!—l am., etc., ■: ■ ■ . J.R.I. ■ • March 28. :