HASTINGS ROAD APATHY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 21 November 1911, Page 2

HASTINGS ROAD APATHY.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir,—“Do I sleep? Do I dream? Do I wonder and doubt? Arc things what they scorn? Or is visions about?”

11l your issue of the 18th instant Mr Anderson says he never canvassed for votes nor did ho authorise anyone else to do so. Well ,perhaps'rot. hut ’tis passing strange that Mr Anderson’s brother-in-law (Mr S. A. Mann) made practically a house-to-house canvass of the west end of the West Hiding asking for votes for Mess.’s Anderson and Smith. Mr Mann asked me the day before the election to vote for the two new candidates. I informed him that had Mr Astbury been standing I would support the two old councillors, as 1 considered they had served the ratepayers, faithfully and well, and as for intellectual ability there is an unfathomable breach between them entirely in favour of the old councillors. Wot one, or more than one,. ratepayer on the Hastings Road recorded his vote. Had they done so there would have been a different tide to unfold. Air Merchant can truthfully say he was defeated by apathy. Unfortunately 1 was one of those apathetic individuals who failed to do his duty—taking for granted Mr M arena n't would be re-elected. Had I recorded my vote our worthy and much-respected chairman and not Air Anderson would have had a majority of one vote. —1 am, etc., “TWO VOTES.” Hastings Hoad, Lowgarth.