HAVELOCK TOWN BOARD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 6

HAVELOCK TOWN BOARD.

To-morrow is the day fixed for the lodging of nominations for the elections, to b© held on the following Wednesday, of members of tho Havelock North Town Board. This town is just now in that stage of its develop, ment when it is eminently essential that the. very best men able, ready, and willing to devote themselves to its interests should be selected to have management of its municipal affairs. Tho community there is already rapidly growing in numbers, and there can be no doubt but that Havelock is eventually to be the residental outlet for a very large proportion of Hastings citizens. There is therefore every good reason why care should now be taken to see that its inevitable expansion is conducted along sane and systematic lines, with a. view to the comfort, health, and pleasure of a large population. The present is tho convenient and econimoeal time for laying plans to this end, and what is wanted is to see that members are selected for the hoard who r have sane vision, and will exercise it with due regard to the future wants and advantages of a quickly growing town. For the present, too, there are items that require their special attention, and prominent among those is the question of getting the most possible out of the hvdro-electric scheme that has been instituted. The fully up-to-date plant which has been established in connection with it is capable of providing very much more estimated in the form of horse-power than is at present being utilised. In fact, we understand, only about a fourth of actual capacity is at present being absorbed. This, of course, means that such of it as is lieing utilised is costing consumers very much more that it would were it that the limit of output was marketable. Much has therefor© to be done in the way of promoting domestic consumption, and this can be achieved only by a businesslike handling of what may easily be made a highly profitable commercial undertaking, if only reasonable inducements are held out to potential consumers and the lienefits derivable well impressed upon them. In th? construction and maintenance of roads and streets, also, it is necessary that the best, modern methods should be adopted, while it will lie to the ultimate as well as the present, undoubted advantage of the town if some fuller public regard were given to its beautification, full use being made of the advantages which nature has conferred.