MAYORAL ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 20

MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) and Mr R. S. Black seem to be obsessed with the idea that the office of mayor should be their own permanent job. Ido not know any of the three candidates personally. Ido think that Mr Marlow’s thirty-odd years of service to the city deserves recognition. He has given his time and work freely and wholeheartedly, and it is only fair that he should have a term as mayor.

Mr Cox was a stranger in Dunedin, and had no part or lot in the city when he made a bid for the mayoralty. We did not know he was among us till his shrill clarion made us sit up and rub our eyes at the last electiop. By fulsome promises, which he was quite unable to carry out, he won the highest position in the city. ILhe can succeed a second time it deserves to get him. Before Mr R. 8. Black got in as mayor he always insisted strongly that the office should be a rolling one. After he got in he refused to roll. He has had two terms, ■ and still be refuses to roll, and is demanding a third. These two men seem to think that they are the only ones capable of doing the job nicely. Dunedin owes them nothing; they were well paid while in office. They should retire when their term expires. Let ns give Mr Marlow a term as mayor.—l am, etc., Fed TJr. April 13.