"INGRATITUDE, THY NAME IS DUNEDIN"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21948, 9 May 1933, Page 10

"INGRATITUDE, THY NAME IS DUNEDIN"

TO THE EDITOR.

Sin,— According to a local in the Otago Daily Times a proposal is to be made to change the nights of meeting of the City Council from Wednesday to Monday, this to suit the convenience of Messrs Munro and Jonea during the parliamentary session. These two gentlemen have, however, also been elected members of the Otago Harbour Board, and Mr Jones has been elected a ,J? em ! ber of the Otago Hospital Board. Where do these two boards .come in? I here was never any suggestion to change the nights of meeting of the City Council and the Harbour Board during the past two years, or previously, to enable Mr Munro to be present while Parliament was in session. Presumably, therefore, the new proposal is to meet the convenience of Mr Jones. I have yet to lunrn that either Mr Munro or Mr Jones has done anything in the affairs of Dunedin or of the Dominion to, warrant a change now being made in the night of meeting of the City Council. The people of Duuedin knew the situation when they voted for Messrs Munro and Jones, and they both knew the position when they stood

for office. Why, therefore, should the other 10 councillors agree to the change, Moreover, the Rev. Mr Cox will be able to call in the assistance of Mr P. W. Shacklock as a councillor without portfolio during the absence of Messrs Munro and Jones in Wellington. It is interesting to note the first item in Mr Cox's programme in an effort to bring about a better state of affairs in degraded and desolated Dunedin. In pursuance of an old English custom he has decided that a special service at Trinity Church shall follow the installation ceremony on Wednesday. During one of his election addresses Mr Cox said that he was not concerned with posterity 100 years hence. He was concerned with the present. Now he intends to bo back 100 years, say, into the past. The people of Dunedin will eagerly await the second item in Mr Cox's programme.—l am, etc., Betrayed.