THE MOUNT EDEN MAYORALTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15886, 6 April 1915, Page 10

THE MOUNT EDEN MAYORALTY.

Sir, — presenting the .requisition on! behalf of 150 ratepayers to'-Mr. Nicholson asking him to offer his services again as! Maypr for .Mount Eden. Mr. Gunson stated i that lie hoped Mr. Nicholson would not j Iv influenced by the criticism which was to a large extent irresponsible. Mr. | Gunson would infer that those ratepayers I who differed from the extravagant policy of the Mayor and present council are irresponsible. Allow me to say tliat those of us who are Uriyed^"irresponsible'' by Mr. Gunson possess just as much intelligence as those who differ from lis. It is, perhaps, a matter of indifference to wealthy men like Mr. J. J. Craig whether the rating of the borough is increased or not, but to the man of small means or the struggling artisan who strives to build ;• home for himself in the suburbs, it means & great deal. There is no doubt that the emphatic protest made against tiie reckless expenditure by the present council is sufficient argument to show that the large majority of the ratepayers in 1 Mount Eden are thoroughly dissatisfied,! and it, is -to be hoped .that 'at the forth- j coming election tie present .Mayor and councillors * will ""be " 'relegated into obscurity, for they can rightly be termed " irresponsible. l ?" "when such* large sums of money have been extravagantly wasted. Vigilant. '