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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2321, 9 January 1893, Page 2

The Star PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1893. THE MAYOR'S ADDRESS.

The Mayor's address the other evening was interesting, and as to the future confident, not to say sanguine. Burgesses generally hope his forecast will prove correct. In regard to the anticipated duplication of the volume of trade owing to the passing of the West Coast Settlement Eeserves Act, we may discount that, but still even less than a duplication will satisfy, and we have no doubt that, uncertainty having been put an end to, there will be a great deal of improvement undertaken, and that increased trade will result. Whether there will immediately be so much subdivision as is anticipated by the Mayor remains to be seen. We have doubts on that point, but he may be better informed than we are. In respect of the water question, nothing can be added to emphasise the desirableness of securing a supply, and

thorough enquiry will, we hope, lead to something practical and practicable being evolved. The sanitary question Mr. Major will find to be a difficult "nut" to crack. It will require a great deal of tact as well as firmness ; and if we were in His "Worship's position, we should chink 1 it of greater importance to get the by-laws carried out in spirit rather than in the letter. Of course, be is rigjht in saying that all equally should be compelled to obey the law, and it is essentially necessary, especially during the coming few months, that" all should co-operate heartily. It is desirable that burgesses should bear in mind that the council is not a body outside themselves, but of themselves, and that each man in the borough has as mnch interest and almost as much responsibility in seeing that the place is kept in good order as the mayor and councillors have. If this feeling be fostered we shall get on much better. Referring to matters outside the borough, we are glad the Mayor moved in the matter of bridging the Ararata stream. The County Council, we think, has previously asked the Government to build the bridge, though with no result. Still, if the two bodies put their heads together, some good may accrue. It is a matter of some interest to the borough, and still more so to the settlers , and, on the other hand, the Government have ppent and are b pending money from which full value will not be secured unlesß communication he made complete by means of this bridge.