PROGRESSIVE ROADING POLICY

Southland Times, Issue 23498, 3 May 1938, Page 8

PROGRESSIVE ROADING POLICY

ADVOCACY OF CANDIDATE FOR MAYORALTY Mr Gordon J. Reed, candidate for the mayoralty of Invercargill, addressed a good meeting of residents of Georgetown at the Public Hall last night. Mr V. Drummond was chairman. Mr Reed gave details of his policy and said he would do everything possible to see that a progressive roading policy was carried out urgently and that Stead street was sealed before the next season. The candidate said he had been told that if elected he would not have time to devote to the job of Mayor. If the city required him to be always at the Council Chambers, then he did not want the position, which would be one for a town manager for which applications should be called. If elected, he would devote a fixed period every day to the city’s affairs which was all that was required. Mr Reed said he was conducting his campaign on his own initiative. He had: heard it suggested that some of his friends on the council would unduly influence him. He gave that statement the lie direct. If elected, he would control the council with decency, order and amity in the best interests of the city. A vote of thanks and confidence was carried unanimously on the motion of Mr A. Gilchrist and Mr Neil McDonald.