THE OTHER SIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 9

THE OTHER SIDE

CORPORATION DEFENDED

A defence of the work carried out by the Wellington City Council during his last term as Mayor was made by Mr. T. C. A. Hislop at a well-attend-ed meeting of electors at the Thorndon Methodist Hall. He said the civic services had been operated efficiently, and all had shown small surpluses, a result, he said, attained by the loyal team of councillors he had had behind him.

Mr. Hislop skid that Labour supporters had made the charge that the council had failed to tackle the housing problem. He reviewed the various steps taken by the council and said that every motion he had brought forward had been solidly opposed by the Labour members on the council. He resented the suggestion that he was not interested in the question, more particularly when the people from whom this suggestion had emanated were led by Mr. Chapman, who did not attend the special meeting of the housing committee called by Mr. Hislop to consider the engineer's report. Mr. Hislop said that the suggestion that he was opposed to the best interests of the working people was ridiculous. He had no reason to regret any action during his seven years of office as Mayor of Wellington as it might have affected working men and women, and one direct proof of that was the number of corporation workers who had called upon him to express appreciation of his attitude towards city employees.

"I am afraid it will require a major calamity to awaken New Zealand to the dangers attending the destruction of forests," remarked Captain E. V. Sanderson at last evening's annual meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society. "It will need something like the Waimakariri River turning into its old course and going through the city of Christenurch," he added. "People take a lot of waking up,"