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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15075, 19 May 1919, Page 2

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]>U THACKER ON A MAYOR'S

DUTIES

Dr Thacker, the new Mayor of Christchurch, is nothing if he is not original in his ideas and his modes of expression. In the course of his address at his installation he is reported to have expressed himself as follows: — He wanted no party bickering. He wanted to bo the lovely cement to heal all differences in the Council, so that they would work together all the time, and be as one. He wanted his Council to be-the-same. as..a ..champion football team, every man doing his bit on behalf of the whole. He ■ hoped, they would work with one accord. If there were 'any differences among them, he hoped they would come along to him, and then, as a father did to a happy family, he would smooth away their differences. (Applause.) It grieved him that evening; to see thousands of his loyal supporters, and thousands of the supporters of othor candidates, unable to secure.'admission through force of circumstances. He hoped that' when He installed the next Mayor-it would be in v ■Town-H-all. (Applause). By co-opera-tion and consolidation he hoped the people wouM overcome the present lack of municipal accommodation in the city. He wanted to see the Drainage Board, the Treasury, the Fire Board, the Plunket nurses, the kindergarten, ail in one block, with a Town Hall, with music for the people. He wanted to see the Town Clerk sitting at his desk merely to touch whole system. He suggested that later on they might give the Town Clerk, a button to communicate with the "the live 'bee of the institution, the brains of it," a holiday to go to America and report on a new Town Hall. One good forward in a football team could not :win a match, 'the other members must assist. In the san\e way, the other members of the Coymeil must push behind him. He was going to secure an adequate water supply, an adequate sewerage system. He wanted to "cup" the whole of the sewerage and drainage by a Port of Christchurch at Heatlicote.