BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 310, 4 October 1882, Page 2

BOROUGH AFFAIRS.

' ' ' Hh 'the <MiYM of the &tik '• '' \ \ Sir, — I was pleased to see that one of the * councillors 'app&retftly noted the letters on borough masters lately appearing in your paper, wi£h jjeferencp to the high' salaries • now' paid to their officers.' 'It is to be lioped "the other' members, will suppoW Mi 1 . Winks in his endeavw 4 td' reduce the p'resetu heavy dxbenditure, for it must be admitted the salaries now. paid are, niore, than, eautva.lent'for! i!b!e work dotte/atfd the' decision of the council will be looked forward to with anxiety. Shbul3»'Mr. Winks' motion?-: be thrown' out, > there is not the leastdoubt, this question will be onp of the teat,, of 'qualification ,in any f, ui;ure election. It must also be admitted;that at the present rate of expenditure, the £5000 Wa. Wflt be Mtted away without the borough being improved to jLhat extent, which it was' to expect; and 'which the ratepayers were led' ta believe would be derived ftom so large tan dnwUot.of money .j , one; on twq-pf Relate actions of the (jlpjU^c^^^shp^^l^to

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taUßpp tiKbe^BDlaced, -Mj^PHe, by bl^pßl ' Stfl^B. '^^3^ CHMflpi^Ril Still intend to experimentalise, it is to be hoped theyjgjji do so on one portion of road, and thus we may derive the benefit of their labor in other parts of the borough. lam of opinion that if some of the councillors could discuss matters without picking holes in one another's -coats,-itrwdtrtdr"be-^;o* the*aavaMtage of the ratepayers. — I a,m, &c, .i«M: < ■' - .11 Economy.