"FULFILLING ELECTION PLEDGES."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 8

"FULFILLING ELECTION PLEDGES."

■ ■■ ♦ " - — NOETHIANI)' BATING QUESTION. _A question was put to the' Mayor, Dr. Newman, at last night's' meeting of the City Council,'by-Councillor. Fitzgerald, wno_desired; to. know the tacts regarding the Northland special rate problem. He referred •. to the following . paragraph (which* was..published by. our morning contemporary' two days ago), 'and asked; if the statements made therein were correct:—' 1 ' \\ V ' I • , ■ With regard to . the adjustment of . •- rates and property between 'Kirori ' borough and Wellington city' conse- . juent upon' Northland being included in the city,..the commission which was . to have been .opened to-day at the Magistrate's Court to .deal with the matter.will be adjournM indefinitely. ' The Mayor of Karori last-evening at a meeting of his council said he had seen the Mayor of Wellington, and had asked what it was the city wanted- He had, been informed. in effect that .the city did not want anything. It .had never.; asked for anything, but had .been driven into getting a com- • mission set' up by some of the coun- . cillors insisting, that >thi6 should be. done. No doubt they,were ful£lling their, election, pledges.

Suoh a, statement' could hot have been made by a responsible person," said Councillor Fitzgerald; "I wait to know if you inside that statement." ■'•'" ' In reply, the Mayor said that the paragraph which had been brought under, his notice, astounded,him.. He could not account, for it at- all. He.had met "Mr Dasent, Mayqr, of Karnti,.accidentally in thestreet; and the matter-was mentioned. ■He .remarked that: the' Government had set'top a commission, to settle the matter, and. Mr. Dasent "asked, ■■'• "What do you want out of it?" He replied, "It is what the people of Northland want" "I am' positive," added the Mayor, "that I never referred to any councillor making pledges of the kind, and.l am amazed to see the "paragraph as "it stands. How Mr. Dasent could have so reported it fills, me with, amazement." .- ".. Inreply'to a further-question from the council table,, the 'Mayor said: - "The whole matter is out of bur hands now, and the ways of the "Government are mysterious." '■■;.••■>■. , , ■>