HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 171, 5 July 1919, Page 2

HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

(.TO THW XDITOB. ] Sir, —To Cr. Beamish's impeachment that 1 voted to put him iu the council, 1 have to plead guilty. 1 did so under a misapprehension. As to whether 1 , shall ever repeat the oflence depends jon whether this incipient attack of ' “lethargic railsititis’’ which has seized ■ the councillor, does, or does not, develop, and become chronic. That tiie Finance Committee recommended “certain” increases was well known. That the said committee commenced the increases at the wrong place is my contention, and the councillor impliedly endorses my contention. From the cost of living standpoint the place to afford telief was not with the £6 to £lO a week men, whether they had no children or a quiver full, but to the lower paid and harder worked, the consideration should first have been given. I wonder if this camo under the purview of Cr. Davis’ motion. Cr. Beamish’s suggestion that a substantial increase to the “heads” would call forth their best service is scarcely complimentary to those gentlemen. The ratepayers have alwavs assumed they were already paying for the “best” service these men were capable of. Jf they have not been rendering their “best” they are obviously in debit, and not entitled to any rise. Where the supposititious “extra amount of work in connection with returns and reports” comes in I cannot imagine. Apropos Mr. Beamish’s wellknown predeliction to Jiave a tilt at the Government, which he indulges here, in charging it with “absolute indifference in dealing with the high cost of living” this does not furnish any reason why our local administration should “grease the fat hog” and ignore the low wage man. To further augment the salaries paid to these well paid and not overworked men, is on a par with the iniquitous system of big jiensions fo civil servants who have drawn lifelong handsome pay and many of whom have become opulent in the process. Meantime I accept Cr. Beamish's assurance that he w ill shun the rail in future. —I am. etc.. i “SCRUTATOR.” |

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