DEVONPORT AFFAIRS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22512, 1 September 1936, Page 15

DEVONPORT AFFAIRS

Sir, —The ratepayers of Devonport will read with amazement that their council intends to reopen the question of the erection of new municipal buildings. In other words, the council, like a terrier worrying its pet bone, intends to dig up the issue from the grave to which it was consigned by a recent public poll. One may well ask then: Has the decision of the public no weight in this matter? Mr. Hutchings seems to think that because rain dripped on the head of the town clerk from a faulty roof, the case for the new buildings is greatly strengthened. In any case, it is a disgraceful thing that the roof of Devonport's municipal building should have been allowed to fall into such a state Among the host of officials, artificiers and workmen employed by the councd was there not one who could mend a simple leak? Truly, it is all very discouraging to overburdened ratepayers to know that it has a council which, although it is eager to undertake all manner of expensive schemes, cannot mend a hole in its own roof! Jhe councd will be well advised if it gives np its attempt to disinter this particular bone. Solon, jun