THE COMING ELECTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12071, 15 September 1902, Page 3

THE COMING ELECTIONS.

to the RDITOIt.

Sir,ln a short time we will have the usua' crowd of aspirants for the honour (and' honorarium! of election to our House of Representative!:. I feel and I hope to read in your columns from other citizens that it is, their opinion also that an improvement in the quality of our chosen representative® is' much to be desired. We do not wish to be represented by third-rate politicians of blatant mediocrity, but by those who are capable of rendering some service to our cityarid colony. Could we not ask, and I hopeprocure, men of the stamp of, say, Mr. Archibald Clark, of Clark and Sons, Limited and Mr. Arthur Myers, of the Campbell-Ehron-fiied Company. Limited, to represent us? The fairness of both to their employees is well known, and the workers of tho community could rely on their good faith and honour as assuredly as they could noon, say. a chairman of a Conciliation Board or a labour agitator. The trading class would, feel reliance that no wrong would be perpetrated and any proved grievance remedied. Their honour is undoubted; he who runs may read their possession of business capabilities of th:) highest order, and' we require representatives able to dissect a balance-sheet ; and, Anther, if state m the colony and the value of enterprise m the colony are any consideration, yen can no more compare the relative value of some of the candidates with them than yen • could compare the relative value to a farmer on his land of a good milking cow and a hedgehog. Give us something to work and vole for. There may be a few less Acts passed one session that; have to be amended the next before being brought into operation but "Who goes slowly e,,es safely and goes far. -1 am, etc., A., ELECTOR.