THE CITY COUNCIL ELECTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22563, 6 May 1935, Page 28

THE CITY COUNCIL ELECTION

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—The decision which the electors make on Wednesday will have a vital effect on their welfare during the next three years. Citizens who are qualified to vote should weigh up the issues very carefully and, in choosing the candidates whom they intend to support, should endeavour to free their minds from all personal and sectional bias and use their votes in a manner which will secure the return of a council that will conduct the affairs of the city in the best interests of the community as a whole and not solely in the interests of one privileged section or class.

Without taking any side, Sir, I suggest that the most important duties of a City Council functioning in the best interests of all citizens would be those as outlined by Dr D. G. M'Millan, namely:—. (1) 'To protect and safeguard the health of the community, and to this end to ensure that the water supply is not only adequate, but that it and the milk and food supplies are pure and wholesome; (2) to do its utmost for the less fortunate members of society; (3) to make a conscientious and sincere effort to house its people adequately; (4) to operate the municipal enterprises so that they will show neither a loss nor an undue profit; (5) to adjudicate between the different sections of the community without fear or favour; (6) _to set private employers a. good example by its sympathetic and humane treatment of employees; (7) to conserve the assets of the community arid to guard against extravagance in the- borrowing and expenditure of public money. If support is given by a majority of electors to candidates who they believe will endeavour to carry out their administration in accordance with a conscientious conception of these duties, then I am sure that we'need have no fears as to the future of our fair city and as to the well-being and protection of all who reside therein. —I am, etc., Resident Ratepayer For -25 Years.