QUERIES ANB QUANDARIES

NZ Truth, Issue 1017, 23 May 1925, Page 6

QUERIES ANB QUANDARIES

"Truth" Would Like -To ■ r -Know— ; ; .:'\ Whether after- war problems (in--eluding H.C.Li.y are not affecting-' the country as much as those of war-time, when Reform and Xiiberal-Labor members united m the interests, of the wellbeing of the whole community? Do not the times call for a similar hnking-up of < the forces of those who seek to serve the:whole of the people and not merely one of it? Will developments enable us to distinguish between those politicians who stand for Country and those who.' stand for Party? How' many of the I ' latter really stand for SELF? -'Y~'; Whether the interest evinced/in the Jubilee of the Union Steam Ship Company this year would not have been very much greater had the Company not been absorbed by .the big. British shipping combination? , Whether, despite this fact, great credit should still not be given to the G.O.M. of the Company— Sir James Mills? From 2000 to 260,000 tons of shipping is a great advance and the development of our coastal and intercolonial, 'services might have been much slower but for the enterprise and foresight of Sir James arid his associates. it is generally known .that the management and control :of the Union Steam Ship Company's operations still remain entirely m the 'hands of the N.Z. Board of Directors? ■.. Is the Rev. J. X; . Archer whom Christchurch has hpriored by elevating to the Mayoral Chair just a hopeless, straightout ."class-consciouser,V_...heed-less of the interests of electors whose rights are none the less great because they voted against him? "Truth" gave him a friendly reception and predicted that he would make' ~aV gopd showing as Mayor, despite 'hl^ tied surroundings. But 'he • made":* af» Bad start on -Monday night. . ; ,' . ? •; , Whether Christchiurch City^Gouncillor Agar was 'far astray when yjfcie remindedopponent's to • his election 'as Deputy-Mayor, that the Deputy-Mayor was not appointed to represent the Mayor personally (m -this ; case J. K. Archer), but to. represent; the citizens and the city of Ghristchurch m the absence of the Mayor? : - Whether the recently-elected Mayors of local bodies, \ and also Couneillgjrs, will realise that!vthey are suppo*se<J : Tbb represent the whole of the citizens agd the city, and not a section, thereof^ and certainly, not themselves- alone;';' Whether ."there is any^limitlto t£e applications for. suppression of >names m the Magistrate's •.Courts'? Afec'orciing to some southern lawyers the time ia approaching \ when even the identity of a person whose: chimney goes on fire may not be revealed.' : Whether anything dreadful-", would haye happened had ..Senior . Councillor Tom Bloodworth" been 'appointed Deputy -Mayor of Auckland? Will the name of the Reform Party be retained after next -week's, meeting? Has anyone suggested definitely a Coates-Wilford Ministry?,. How many Ulectric Power BoarAs are getting on as well as Manawatu-Oroua, whose, guarantee was 1500 k.v.aJiti . the fifth year, but who will be supplying m the first year no less than. 1200 k.v.a. or, say, about 80 per cent. ? (The guarantee- was:- lst-year ./iO.vper, /cent., 2nd 50 per cent., .3rd \ 6O per. .cerity 4th SO per cent.; sth . iOO per cent; .so the board is two or^thr.ee \ years a,tiead .of its. undertaking.)^;* v/>:; :^ \- >.:.