PROBLEMS OF THAMES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3793, 10 August 1932, Page 8

PROBLEMS OF THAMES

“HOPING FOR THE BEST*’ COMMENT BY THE MAYOR Per Press Association. Thames, August 10. Reference to the financial problem of the Thames borough wa s made by the Mayor, Air S. Elisor, win 11 replying to the- toast oi Local Bodies, af a social function. Ho said the eruneil certainly had a very hard row to. hoe. but the trouble wa s they had hoi tools to hoe wijh. Ail tlio members of the c. -uncil werq {doing their H i si- in the interests of the majority and the community a.s a whole. They eon fcidered it best toi keep a- 1 many man -7i employment n s passible, an] 1:1 the matter of curtailment of expenditure they felt, they had done all tl-y could reasonably be aske,i to da. Th position recently had heeu. clarified to some extent, buf it- wa s difficult t n say what was going j/> happen. 4 ‘Wo have written history, but flic circumstances were beyond our control. Thames luu been, decried far and wide, even by people n our own town. However, we are all hoping for the host, Enough we cannot say just what the future holds.”