"BUSINESS MEN."
|! The■ two"most important questions facing; Houghton .Bay, said; Mr. A. Black, Labour candidate for the City Council, were transport«and . decent Toads,; There-was a difference in tlie ;attitude of the Labour Party and that of their opponents,to questions like ;these,..the Citizens' candidates maintaining that unless a' work stio.wed a profit it, should not be iThey were business men. The Labour ■candidates urged that the necessities 'of the people .were the first consideration, and- ttiat ; the : ; welfare^oi' the people repaid the expenditure. How could ■'the' question of returns be con:sidered' in such vital matters as water sujaply? In the matter of street works, ;as-;well,; the service to the people was, in- the, opinion. of the Labour cahdi-, ;dates, the first, consideration. -In regard 1o transport, he maintained that the outlying-residents, who put ..up' with a go.od deal,: were entitled to all theyixould get of the" transport conveniences enjoyed !by the more . central portions of the city. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 11
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156"BUSINESS MEN." Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 104, 4 May 1935, Page 11
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