MUNICIPAL BUNGLING.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13786, 24 January 1917, Page 3

MUNICIPAL BUNGLING.

. To-the Editor of "Thd Times." . "• Sir—The resentment, at recent pilb-' lie criticism is being carried too far- if avo may vend into- the-conduct of.JEondiiv night's meeting a desire to conserve public, business to the process of filtering through" individual councillors to the public. That Councillor Mitchell •should be guilty of action which lends colour to the suggestion is. remarkable. At anytime a pressman acting in tlie

(dual) capacity of'report er;nt)jtjiidge'.:bcv cupies an invidious position.': l ll ' an y la's'o; there' was no warrant for having tlic'electricity report which had already been published, *ake'n into committee. The engineer was in attendanco-to explain any points not quite clear to the councillors. The public wore interestedly' awaiting the results. • The. meeting should have been open so that all further information.could have been available to the ratepayers' to the fullest ex-' tent. The" very best .opportunity pos- 1 . siblu has been lost for educating pros: poetiye customers regarding the potentialities of the electric proposition,, It would bo interesting to know who the councillors were who were present at the meeting, Evidently a following too easily led into error. It would be too much to expect any feasible explanation in connection with this matter, but, it is' truly time' that we got busy | to secure drastic changes in the personnel of our Borough Couucil, The present. members. do not seeji to be capable of waking up to a realisation of either the dignity or importance of their positions, Then' if nothing will shake,' let's shift them, and fill their places with better, less sensitive, more reasonable and progressive men,—l am, etc, VOTE,