MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13636, 15 April 1908, Page 3

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

(To the 'Editor.)' ' ' ' • Sir, — In Monday's Ilcrald, appears .» looter* asking certain "questions re 'the office work. As to fljo comparison 7nado in office co. r .t between 'now snd the Into Captain Hampton's time, it is solf-ev.ido.Yit that tho/r conditions are totally differoni', ond 'the work has enormously increased — rourh more than those out of the Council are aware 'of. The abattoirs, electric light, and draiha^o are departments that all 'make a lot of extra work; in the' letters' alono" probably for- every ton in tho forrncr period one Iwttdrccl iko out now. Tho ordinary growth of the town maker; ' a jot of ojrtrSr work and tlio' clerical work in keeping tlio various loan nionoys, otr., in order mnns work that nc^ds goinp; behind tho scones to thoroughly iinderstand. As to tho question of tJie Viro Board appointmonty, when it' came before the Fim l^oord I* at onoo raised iho question that it was not advisable, under the t n nns I unclprstood the aotorrn clerk was made, to depart from th'>*o condi'tinns.' Ho'iVovc it ffa« loft' for tho Council 'to say who thor they 'wculd the appoiutrr^nt or nnr, ?iitj the drci^inn of tho Council o:i Monday ni^ist showed that tho majority looked at it in i\bc snm" ]i^ht as T did.' In f.-n'm^s 1 * to Mv Bo'lJrih'Tor CTown Ciorki I may say fch-T-t he did not A.ish for the nositiozi," and it only on roiiroßoiitntions rnudo. to 3iim by r-omo of tho Boai'd thr,t' h< a iroed to a crept, su'j/oct to -the Council's sanction, oven if only to wt the nffairs in going order tho first yop.r. — I am, etc., W. A. COLLIS. !