BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTION

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6604, 26 May 1925, Page 5

BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTION

(To the Editor.)

Sir, : —Mr Sam McKibbin says in his letter "in the News of 21st inst., that he believes in letting sleepingdogs lie. I don’t; I would not allow any man’s dog, asleep or awake, to tell me a lie. I, never did put much faith in a dog that shows his teeth and" wags his tail at the same time—one does not know which end of him to trust. Evidently some of the old councillors have been opening their mouths and showing their teeth bevcause so much has been heard about so and so going to resign their seat if friend Sam was elected to a seat on the Council. He quotes figures to show what a narrow escape they had in not having a seat to sit on or give up to let him sit in it. Figures don’t lie like sleeping dogs (if in doubt get a recount), but they act as a “pointer” to the fact that the ratepayers are not satisfied with the doings and carryings on of the old councillors. They should be punished to the utmost rigour of the law if they dare to think so. I admire his fighting spirit, he has evidently been to the front, and -point blank refuses to go round the back even for a fight; therefore challenges the whole bang lot of councillors, old or new, one or the lot, to resign and contest the seat they sit on with him. Fines, costs and witnesses’ expenses to be paid by the challenger (free show for the ratepayers). Councillors do not seem anxious to accept the challenge, perhaps owing to the small majority they had at the poll. They are dubious of taking what appears to me an awful risk of not getting back again. If that was to happen the knowledge that the aforesaid* challenger had more brains to the _ square inch than any old councillor, . would so affect the Mayor and give him a reasonable excuse to resign and have ago for Parlamentary honours as a solace to his wounded dignity. A wise move, because lam sure that when the again aforesaid challenger takes a seat on the council that will be the stone end of the Mayor’ (only as a Mayor) Being an Irishman by upbringing on my father’s side, I dearly love a fight, and a good fighter, and would deem it a favour for some old “male” councillor to take up the challenge and give it a go, for the love of Mike, and risk it. —I am, etc., TWAIN MARK