MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT.

Evening Star, Issue 19518, 28 March 1927, Page 8

MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT.

to THE EDITOR. Sir, — In your report of the City Council meeting, in the .section headed ‘ Unfounded Insinuations,’ Cr Sincock suggests soino hidden motive. Instead of insinuations 1 stated_ plain facts. A largo number of applications, including returned soldiers, were turned down, and the position given to onn who on August 7, 1913 (practically after the war) changed his name irom Schwartz to Mathicson. Among the applications was one from an ‘‘ Old Contemptible,” who after Mens was for over four years a prisoner in Germany. .He has had experience in baths control, physical training, and ambulance work. This applicant was in chaigc of the baths at the period which Mr Sincock refers to as a record period in the bath's inklings. Cr Sincock rotors to the correspondence as neither manly nor honorable. Was it manly and honorable to push the laic caretaker out by _pinpricking when other methods failed? Was it manly and honorable to allow him to remain in the position for so many years if he was not capable? Is it manly and honorable to torget and fail the men who fought and suffered in the long, cruel war? Is it manly and honorable of a councillor “ to refuse to bo drawn into pi hit”? "Would it not bo manly and honorable to reply to questions asked in ilm Press regarding tiio frightful expenditure on ramp amd steps in Dowling street? Would it not ho manly and honorable to attend to the lighting of the city and suburbs; last night a lady was assaulted ,in Lynwood avenue; no lamps were 1 alight. At the foot of forty-two _danUlerons steps unprovided with railings | in Newington avenue the lamp has not I been .alight for weeks. I am honorable 'enough to inform Cr Sincock that when I first voted for his election to the council it was under a wrong impression of his identity, and that T shall reverse my vote at the coming election.—l am, etc., T. Dr Spong. March 27.