HUTT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 180, 27 April 1929, Page 11

HUTT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

git,—As a stranger in the Hutt district, I have been attempting to family . iarise myself with the municipal political situation. I have a vote, and am determined to exercise it in the best interests of the community where i have made iny home. To this end 1 have attended the political meetings where the rival Mayoral and municipal candidates expoqpd their policies. ' 1 am franaly puzzled. There seems to be two parties the “Ins” and the “Outs,” and both these parties are in ■favour of progress without undue expenditure, and both want light thrown on the dark places in the borough. Amalgamation is agreed upon. Both the prospective Mayors are land agents of different sorts, and are also military men. -Xt is difficult to decide between themWhat I want to know is: What income has the borough, and how is it being spent? If I could get the rival candidates to tell me this, and say how they propose to improve the borough services at l£ss expense to the ratepayers, I could decide very easily for whom to vote. Instead of this simple solution, I found - when I attended a meeting of the “Ins” that, the sitting Mayor, who is not a candidate, was wasting the time of the meeting by defdhding himself and his •council from charges which no.one was making. In his best manner he fairly dripped honey over all his colleagues, not even sparing the prospective Mayoral candidate for his side. It was, I agree, pleasant to hear this “nirvana” voice greasing the skids for the launching of the new Mayor and council, but I prefer hearing, about the horse-power and miles per gallon of the new craft, and what lyade routes it will take up. I then attended a meeting of the “Outs,” and found them simply soaked in sewage. This party ask the ratepayers to place them in the council chamber, and all will be swee_t and clean. Could not the riyal candidates dispense , with their favourite relish and just tell the ratepayers how they propose to get the best results from the available money? —I am, etc., .- , SEEPAGE. Lowey Hutt, April 23.