CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12256, 28 April 1903, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE CONDENSED.

Mr. P. Walker, boot and shoe manufacturevKaraiigahape Road, writes. at con- ' siderable length on the municipal election ami the neglect of Karangahape Soad. - H«'-.'fet. blames , severely . the councillors •? who have • been in. office and hopes that . the new m.eiy • will give attention to Karangahape Road, and especially abate the dust nuisance. Ma Walker enters at great length .into the details of watering, etc. • • i' "Residential," apropos ;of the Mayoral I /; election, calls attention to the fact that at a meeting of the Harbour Board in December, 'j 1902. Mr. Stichbury presiding, it, .was>;>|,'s moved that Mr. Nathan act ~as , chairman, ' and also ■ that Mr. Stichbury'act as chair- ■ 'i man. The voting -was five-votes.'for Nathan" ; and four for Stichbury, but; Mr. Stichbury ■ claimed that he had a casting vote as chair- :A' man, and that the voting.was even. " Residential" continues In giving the abov«';r,.laruling the chairman (Mr. James Stichburv) * S showed titter ignorance of his duties as such. As• the • voting was four to five no casting; foi> vote ; was required.: He had . already given ~ : / his deliberate vote to ■ himself," and if -he had ' given another vote (what he' called a casting "At vote) ■ this would have ; made' it' five to five.. 'S >>? Surely if he has not learnt this duty better by now it, augurs badly for the future." , " Parnell" calls attention ito the fact that • John Raphael Lundon has been nominated for : office on two : municipal bodies, to iwit, • t ,- 1 Parnell and Grey Lynn. - He has never, known - : an instance of one man seeking simultaneous election for two borough councils.