Borough Administration.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8142, 16 November 1905, Page 5

Borough Administration.

(To the Editor)

Sir, —I observe that Mr Stubbs, speaking for himself, assumes that Borough Councillors will welcome remarks upon Borough administration from newspaper correspondence and inferentially.from him. :

Eliminating those portions of Mr Stubbs' letter which deal with bis own official behaviour and attitudep, and which assure an anxious public that between the flesh^ots of corruption and the possible dishonesty of his colleagues stands the incorruptible Stubbs, I would gather that Mr Stubbs' letter, though a little obscure,.is intended as a defence of tbo Borough administration.

As such I .deplore it and as a Councillor entirely repudiate it—"qui s'excuse s'accusa" is a proverb I hold in great esteem, and therefore, I conceive the proper attitude of Councillors to be a, dignified disregard of all public eriticisni and' a calm reliance that the rectitude of their official acts will in the fullness' of time speak for itself.

Permit me, therefore, speaking for myself, to crrect Mr Scubb's assumption

that liia letter is in any way welcome to me as a: Borough Councillor, and to venture the apprehension that it is no more, pleasing to other Councillors than to me.—l am, etc., C A. LODGHJTAN.