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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 226, 17 June 1908, Page 8

. What is an ideal municipality? The district health.'officer made somo interesting remarks on this head at the meeting of the Eden Terraco Road Board the other evening, says t-ho Auckland " Horald." Dr. Purdy said a properly run municipality had been compared to ail unlimited liability company engaged in an enterprise in which every citizen was a shareholder, and of which the dividends were receivable in the improved health and'the increase in the oomfort and happiness of the community. The members of tho Council were the directors, with the Mayor as chairman of tho great business, and their fees consisted in tho confidence, the consideration, and tho gratitudo- of those amongst whom they lived. "The gratitude is sometimes a minus quantity, though" added Dr. Purdy, and members of tho Board smiled meaningly at tho remark. , Now Zealanders, though .in many respccts original, are good at adapting, and perhaps this was the reason that tho chairman at a function at North-East Vallev the other night had some suggestions toWke in that direction. During a visit to tho North Island (says tho "Otago Dailv Times"), ho had noticed round tho walls in a certain public library pictures of local celebrities who had passed away. He thought this idea might bo adopted with advantage in NorthEast Valley. If the portraits of deceased councillors wcro placed in the Young Men's Instituto it would be a decided encouragement to the holders of municipal honours. "Not to die, surely," interjected an astonished member of fcho audience. "No, hardly' that/' replied the speaker joining in the general laugh, "or" (recollecting the institute), "to live either; but it.would encourage them to work for the interests of the borough."