THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4277, 27 November 1888, Page 3

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOB,

Sir, —I can hardly allow Messrs Sanderson and Davidson's letters re payment of rates and rents to go unchallenged. The former may bave a personal reason for defending Mr Humphrey's action in this matter, but when the latter states that " Mr Humphrey had no more to do with the action taken for the recovery of arrears of rates than any other Councillor," and that " arrears are generally taken to mean rates remaining unpaid at the expiration of the financial year for which they are levied," he states, in his anxiety to further Mr Humphrey's cause, what he knows to be inaorrect. My letter, whioh appeared in your paper in February last, remained unanswered. In it I charged certain members of the Council with being in arrears to the amount of L 254 18s 2d, in spite of repeated advertisements threatening all ratepayers with summary prooeedinga unless "all accounts, inoluding the November rates and rents, were Immediately paid." Upon my bringing the matter np for dlßOussion before the Council, Mr Humphrey rose in great wrath and stigmatised my motion as " impertinent, inquisitorial, and irregular." I now ask Mr Humphrey, chairman of the Finance Committee, to inform the ratepayers whether he was or was not owing more money to the borough than any ether councillor at the table ? I am, etc., G. S. Lxnioti. -