OUR CITY FATHERS.
[To The Editor.] Sir,—ls the Borough Council a close corporation ? I am lead to ask this question through the fact that all its civic announcements are advertised outside of the borough and none of them are made known to the public through the correct channel—your journal, Mr Editor. I have heard say that the price of tendering has gone up considerably of late simply because the working man never sees a borough advertisement. But this is by the way. Wrapped round my butcher's meat to-day I found a copy of a Napier paper and casually casting my eye down one of the columns I noticed an announcement that nominations for three seats on the Council were due on Thursday, September 2nd. Of course it is too late now to find a candidate, but I feel certain that through the want of publicity the three retiring councillors will have a walk-over. I am told that the Napier paper has a monopoly of these advertisements at one penny per inch. Perhaps the Gisborne or Pahiatua journals might do it for less, and there would be a saving to the Council. It does seem a thorough farce that the ratepayers never see any notifications, and it is a glaring case of " penny " wife and pound foolish. I am, &c., J latepaybk. Hastings, August Blst, 18^?-*
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Hastings Standard, Issue 413, 31 August 1897, Page 2
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225OUR CITY FATHERS. Hastings Standard, Issue 413, 31 August 1897, Page 2
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