COUNCILLOR COLLIS AND THE MAYORALTY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13634, 13 April 1908, Page 7

COUNCILLOR COLLIS AND THE MAYORALTY.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — One of the questions upon which some of the ratepayers of this town would like to hear the views of the several candidates for the Mayoral chair is the enormously increased cost of administration within late years, the salaries and wages being now out of all proportion to what they were a few years ago. Take, for instance, the Town Clerk's department, where the expenditure is now something like three or four times what it was in the late Captain Hempton's time. It has been that the Town Clerk is overworked, and consequently, in addition to substantial increases of his own salary, quite a number of assistants are employed to help him to keep abreast of tne borough work. Yet it is said that, with the consent of Councillor Collis, ho has just accepted the position of Secretary to the Fire Brigade Committee with a salary of £25 a year. Perhaps Councillor Collis will explain, for the infbfmation of the ratepayers, how the Town Clerk is going to do this additional work if he is already overburdened with the duties of the borough office. — I am, etc., JUST A COMMON RATEPAYER.