MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1902, Page 6

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Mr. R. Kecno addressed a meeting of Rosoncath ratepayers at tho local schoolroom last night, Mr. Wishart presiding. Tho candidate said ho Lad been in tho Council for years, and ho had as good a grasp of Molroso Borough matters as any Councillor at the table. Ho had always been iv progressive member, and hud donu his level best to punh tho interests not only of the Island Bay Ward, which ho represented, but of tho whole borough. Ho complained that, many votes passed by the Council had not been oxpeuded. Thin was not so much the fault nt tho Council ns of the Mayor, who Mas the executive oflicer. Ho (the candidate) had said again and again, that if there were not MilUcicnt lticn in tho Council's employ to cany out needed works, the works ou;;ht to bo carried out by contract. Mr. Kceue leferred with regret to tho scenes which lately had taken place in the Council, causing a grievous vaste of time lli;tfc should have beo.r'devotcd to forwarding thu ratepayers' intcieFts. Hix reanon for coule'.-tinjj the Mu.yoiu.lty amis that ho was not, i-aiMied with tho progress that hud been made. He was conliilent that if boiou^h roquiiements weic properly atto.ided to Muli owe would go forward with leaps and bounds. Iho time had camo when tho moie populous portions of the suburbs must bo connected with tho oity drainage. No scheme involving tho absorption by Wellington of "tho surrounding borough should conic into forco until the ratepayers i onccrnid had had an opportunity of considering the propos.tK Jf (ii eater Wellington were not Rctumpliuhad he was in ♦favour of getting legislation ]i:i. »cd to rate not only wards but poitious of wards, to chu'jlc developmental work lo proceed where rejquire'l ; hucli, for instance, as providing' belter ."tceess to Ro<'eneatb. If they returned liim he would do his best it. the intcre;;t^ of tho "borough, as v whole. Annwering questions Mr. Kecne said tho Council had nn ovcrdr.ilt of £uj4. A vote of thanks was given to tho candidate.