CAMPAIGN CONTINUED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 16

CAMPAIGN CONTINUED

POINTS OF POLICY

LEAGUE CANDIDATES

There was a *very fair meeting of Nowtown electors in St. Thomas's Hall last evening to hear the views of Air. T. C. A. Hislop, the Civic League .and Eat.epayers' Association candidate for the Mayoralty, and league candidates for the council. Sir John Luke, who presided, said that it was not for a chairman to take sides, but he felt sure that the candidates upon, the platform were men who could very well be recommended to the electors. Mr. Hislop said that the campaign entailed' the making of a great many addresses: he had addressed three meetings that day, and was on the list to speak at three evening meetings as well. He was enjoying it, because it gave him an -opportunity of meeting people of all shades of opinion, and gave him also a quickened interest in the whole of the city's work. Mr. Hislop said that he was partial-! larly pleased to see that the Hospital Board was this year reducing the amount to be demanded from the city by £6000. That amount, then, could be added to the saving of £35,000, which, as he had already indicated, could be made in general expenditure. He made it a d#flnite plank of his platform that the general rate would be reduced by 5 per cent., by savings in street works, reserves, street refuse collection, and by care in administration. The savings mentioned would mainly be made in regard to capital expenditure and special expenditure, but those savings would not be made by neglecting maintenance, by affecting the wages of the employees, or by the dismissal of a single man. TOO EARLY TO. STATE REDUCTIONS. Councillor W. H. Bennett said at a later stage that he thought it was "so much hot air" to speak of rates reduction until the council had the estimates for the year before it. Certain it was that if the rates were reduced less work could be done. At every meeting the committees had before them requests for more improvements, to roads, footpaths, or what not. He >hoped thai the council would be able to abide by its policy of spending another £15,000 in tar sealing, and would be, able also to concentrate upon footpath construction. Last year,' Mr. Bennett mentioned, some thousands of pounds had been saved in street cleaning on surfaced streets. EX-COUNCILLOR CANDIDATE. Mr. John Burns stated that there was nothing in the platform of the league that ho had not already advocated as a City Councillor. In his opinion no candidate should bo elected :o any public body before first having proved himself successful in the management1 of his own business, be it great or small. Mr. Burns said that he had always advocated the elimination of party. He had as a past councillor given close attention to all matters of importance to the city, and had always 'ast his vote impartially. He was prepared to work with tho members of any party who placed the interests of the city in the foreground. Mr. W. Duncan and Mr. C. F. Lethaby spoke along the lines of their previous addresses.