WHO IS INFALLIBLE?

Evening Star, Issue 18255, 20 April 1923, Page 8

WHO IS INFALLIBLE?

Have the executives of the City Council, the Harbor Board, and the Hospitable Board during the past two years made mistakes? Undoubtedly. Name a manager of a business concern who has never made a mistake and you will name an absolute, failure. And if this is so of an ordinary business, is it not excusable in Inigo concerns, such as tho City Council or the Harbor Board, and a big organisation such as tho Hospitable Board? It is fairly safe to sav that, taking into consideration tho difficult, financial conditions which have prevailed—conditions which have caused many an experienced business man to despair and to blunder—these men who have conducted the affairs of the city during tho past two years have, on the whole, weathered the storm extremely well. Tho Dunedin Citizens’ Leag.uo suggests, therefore, that tho experience of thoso_ available members of the old council should again bo utilised by tho ratepayers, and that tho vacancies ho filled by men who have proved themselves capable of conducting successfully business and other organisations. To this end they have chosen for their “ticket” Crs Begg, Hancock, Scott, Shaddock, Sincock, Taverner, and Wilson; Mr Douglas (retiring mayor), and Messrs Clark, Halliday, Mitchell, and Ritchie. The league in so doing expresses tho opinion that these gentlemen are more likely to carry on tho affairs of tho city'successfully than arc men whose main ambition would probably bo to introduce highly experimental “reforms.” The necessity, for those desiring to maintain Dunedin’s reputation "for soundness, to vote tho whole “ ticket ” is obvious. —[Published by arrangement with the Dunedin Citizens’ League.J