LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
“NO DICTATORSHIP.” Sir,—Regarding the letter in your •issue of Monday, June 30th, written by “Fair Play is Bonnie Play,” it is most unfair and improper of your* correspondent to saddle the Mayor of. Paeroa with the amount of responsibility therein subscribed to his Worship. Why should the Mayor, who is but one member of the ruling Council, suffer the whole reproach for the administration of the Borough works? Paeroa is not governed as in Italy, under the dictatorship of one autocrat named Mussolini, or any other name. We are blessed, with a free and open-minded democratic Government, and the administration is in the hands of a number of unfettered men. lam not attacking the Council’s administration nor praising it, but I wish to point out that your correspondent is entirely, wrong in attributing the sole, responsibility of affairs in Paeroa to the Mayor. As I pointed out before, we have no autocracy or dictatorship in Paeroa, but a democratic Council, which must accept its share of blame or praise. ' DINKUM FAIR PLAY. P.S.—The headline is my
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXI, Issue 5596, 7 July 1930, Page 4
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