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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 7862, 3 February 1887, Page 4

We are glad, a3 the citizens of Auckland generally will be, to see that Captain H. F. Anderson has announced himself as a candidate fcr a seat at the Harbour Board. His appeal is to the constituency, composed of all persons who shall respectively have paid three pounds or upwards of harbour dues during the year ending the 15th of January last, ana those whose names appear on the register-book for shipping at the Customhouse as owners or part owners of any vessel. For the support of this constituency, few, if any, men in Auckland can present better claims than Captain Anderson, and we make no doubt that, in the interests of the shipping and ot the harbour generally, which he is closely identified with and thoroughly understands, he will be returned with a tine majority. If the citizens are true to themselves, however, they will not be content with doing their duty thus far, but will also make it their business to look out from among their number other two good men and true who will act in concert with Captain Anderson in furthering the important purposes to which the members of the Harbour Board are expected to devote themselves. And it is the more necessary that they should at once take measures to secure this end that attempts are likely to be mad© by some of the Borough Councils—entitled by Act to select one or more of their members to a place at the Harbour Board ; to secure also one or more of the elective seats, supposed to be available for citizens who are not members of any borough council. Thus the Council of Devonport, while returning one of its number, might nominate another of it 3 members for one of the elective seats, and should he succeed in getting returned, Devonport Council would have two members at the Board instead of one, and if the Borough Council of Parnell and the united Road Board of Northcote and Birkenhead —each entitled to send one memberwere to follow the example of Devonport, the result might be that these bodies would have the entire control of the Board. But surely the citizens will never allow this game to be played with success. Let them therefore avoid giving their promises or their influence to any candidates put forward by any borough council, and exert themselves to have all the three elective seats occupied by candidates of their own who will truly represent the citizens and save the Harbour Board from being made subservient to merely local interests.