WATERSIDE WORKERS' BAND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 137, 6 December 1912, Page 3

WATERSIDE WORKERS' BAND

TO TfflC.lDttOß. ' Sir;— Councillor " Atkinson, replied through y<tor columns . last evening tfr the statement made by the Mayor in an interview , with your reporters, when his Worship expressed his surprise at -the actions of the ( members of ■ the Finance Committee votihg one way in committee, and not only voting against their own report but ' rising first" in open council and. moving against the report. As the •Mayor mentioned the names of the councillors who were present (four in nnmber. my name being amongst timt number), and as Councillor Atkinson ha* cleared lunwelffrom the, charge of being one 'of the wobblers, I. may state I was the h mover s of the. motion m committee, which was brought down in the report, beHeving.as I do that the, council should be ■careful before ' paying out £50 as a subsidy ( to , any. band', that Jiss not ■proved itself capable 'before the' public. As the few months of its existence cannot yet have allowed the band, to., reach that stage of proficiency, which, 1 claim is, Be'cessary before 'the ratepayers', monej should be -expended, and. as I voted fpr the report, as brought down to. the coun<

cil, I also claim to be free from the charge of wobbling. I personally deprecate as much as anyone councillors rushing to our papers making explanations ahd excuses for their action's. , I would also like to- tender, a little advice to the Mayor— that' in giving interviews to the Press, he should in future state all the facts fully and not in part only, more especially when casting reflections on the members'. of, his .council, giving names and leaving the public to start a guessing-competition as to which councillor he intended"4iis remarks to refer to. It would be well if he wants to hit, to hit as hard as -he likes, but to hit straight.— l am, etc., GEORGE FROST.