MUNICIPAL MATTERS
TO THE EDITOR Sir,—The letter from the pen of Mr F. W. Mitchell, published in last evening’s ‘ Star,’ ventilates the opinion held by a large number of our more thoughtful citizens, but what is wanted more than anything else in Dunedin is a new set of city councillors. It is quite hopeless to expect men steeped in prejudice and very limited in vision to profit by the experience of othersi; ana, while our affairs are controlled by _tho present council ,it is useless to ask that common-sense methods be employed in road-making or any other work. There are , plenty of brainy men in Dunedin, and surely it is not asking too much of them that they spend a few terms as members of the City Council. They may not be able to remove all the blemishes from onr civic c'_ . _ they could scarcely fail to improve matters: very. considerably. I am, etc., November 17- ’ JjXu ‘
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Evening Star, Issue 19409, 18 November 1926, Page 4
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