WAITARA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 145045, 22 July 1916, Page 2

WAITARA.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. July 22.—A letter in Ihb local paper last week made a most untair attack on tho .Mayor and councillors. The subject of the letter was supposed to bo a complaint of tho sanitary condition of the town, but tho greater part of.it consisted in personalities and irrevolant matter. As I have for the past two or three years been present at every monthly mooting of the .Borough Council without an exception 1 may bo presumed to know something ot what has taken place, and I can stale positively that no one could have been more anxious to see an effective drainage scheme carried out than the Mayor. I do not think I shall be violating the confidence reposed in tho press being allowed to be present when tho council is in committee iu stating that several schemes have been framed, bufc.it was considered that the only scheme that would bo acceptable would be one that was. capable* of being extended to wider areas as the town became more closely populated. The council.,moreover, was prepared to go on with a scheme without obtaining a mandate from the ratepayers, by obtaining authority from Wellington. At the present time, however, loans can ho obtained only at high rates of interest. It is uot by any means from want of trying that tho drainage .scheme is not at present being carried out. It would take too much space to go at length into details, and the letter is not worth it. But I believe in giving the devil his due as well as public men, and L assort that the present Mayor of M’aitara. is. by tho work he is doing, setting a very hard example for his successor to toilow. The writer of tho letter twits tho Mayor with gallivanting off to Wellington on council business;, as tho ' ‘gallivanting ' mav result iu saving the district rates Mime hundreds of pounds, tho trip is certainly worth while. Of course public men" are expected to.be the target for all sorts of missiles, and the more energetic they arc the more they excite tho jealousy or reprobation of people who know little or nothing about affairs of the town. Acknowledgment is made of tbo receipt from the Mokau Ladies' Serving Guild of two pairs of socks and a •seven-in-oue muffler. The Ruapehu is expected,to arrive m the roadstead on Sunday, and will take away from the port 16 barge loads ot cargo, consisting of frozen meat, wool, amf tallow.

Hollo! Is that you. Hilda t It's all settled at last! Mother and 1 are going to Rennie’s Sale at Tho Rig Store to buy the trousseaux, and we’ll save enough for the .honeymoon.*