TO-MORROW'S ELECTIONS

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 95, 24 April 1917, Page 8

TO-MORROW'S ELECTIONS

■ • -^Mfer. vatt^ding 't'^ vi^tirig;j itt' thtv'Town Halt1 last niglit iidfl, hea.rV■] -ing the' ■Vjaribna-i'':'speak€J^^:>itaiii'';'':,'*fi<ii; figures.'./quoted by liis ." AVoi-ship the. Mayor, J am disappointed that Mx fTarr van not, present to give his reasons why ho'has not attended better to the trust we have reposed in him in the past in electing him to the various local bodies to watch over and conduct our business. If it is correct that he only attended 13 meetings out o*- 2S of the Council this'.,last- term, and then generally camo very late, and in two years oh th<>, Hospital Board only attended two meetings out of M held, then su'roly wo can. get' better representation than this. ■ I always understood we .put him there as a good brake,on all the progi-esa. that .the. firebrands would try to bring off, and as a watch-dog; but it seems now he is never there to carry put this duty for us,. I hope he will tell us to-night whether it is a fact that he is respoasible for the holding of .municipal" elections that will cost the ratepayer £40 for nothing. _.■_'' ... t RATEPAYER.