Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1925 TO-MORROW’S ELECTIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 28 April 1925, Page 4

Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1925 TO-MORROW’S ELECTIONS

INTER EST in the foil liconiing elections .•out res in the selection of members of file City Council. '.I here, is a, good field of candidates and the electors will linvo little diflieu 11y in choosing a solid, ser- \ iceablc Council. Some of the contestants have placed tempting morsels before the electors, but it is just, as well to take these with a liberal dose of salt. Others appear to have some small sectional objective. This can be ignored also. For Councillors have to deal with city affairs as a whole and come to commonsense conclusions on evidence which is .hardly fully available to the average aspirant to office. It is at election iitytauuuyaUKiuiufiii

and, for that matter, not always very much for sixpence. It is a- time when wooers' of the public search within the minds of themselves and others for vote catching erics. A very old friend is the phrase 'Save the rates. If is always well to lake this thin tremulous note with caution, for it is a. negative cry. We. do think that with the important departure made in providing for capital expenditure out of loan, it is possible for the rates to he reduced-- the. reduction in rates is the natural sequence to such vtoliev sanctioned by the ratepayers last year. What we are. referring to is the mere reiteration of the, chronic cry for vote-catching purposes. Ihe great requirement on all local bodies is good.

pound commonsense. capacity to view matters as a whole and come to logical conclusions. Fortunately there is vety liule partisanship observable in Nelsons local politics. Partisanship is usually one-eyed and one-eyed administration hinders progress in every way. Little interest centres in the Mayoral contest r.n this occasion. As we said the other day, most, people were prepared to allow Mr Lock to go back for ids last two \<ars as Mavor unopposed, hut. at. the eleventh hour two aspirants to the ofliee came forward, as they had a. ported right to do. and the electors will have to express their opinions to-morrow.