"MUNICIPAL BRAGGADOCIO."

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 2

"MUNICIPAL BRAGGADOCIO."

To the Editor of the 'Timaru Herald. 3 ' Erir. —it cannot- have been complimentary to the residents i t tins metropolis v-.t south Canterbury 3 as we might egotistically call it, to read from your coi uiiuls this morning tiio sort of way that public business is being coined on here. Every meeting oi tiio iiorougli Council is in these days almost a, repetition of the previous one, and all through the iviid. senseless vituperatir.il oi a tew members, tliat happen. through the medium of the unthinking. to have been elected to have, as it turns out to be, a very prejudicial voice in the be rough's ai.airs. When one member of the Council ehaUeiiiies another to come down uid have it out iu tlie back yard, why :hat individual is holding up our :o\vn to public ridicule. It is simple •liough for any child to read between he lines that this x>articular Couu-

eillor is net on good terms with the borough engineer, and as bvj:li he uses his public- oiiice to endorse it. Your correspondent knows neither the borough engineer nor the councillor in question, but what lie does know is, as a resident, that the operations of a few of ike members oi the Timaru Borough Council. and the continuous way that trouble is created are ::ot productive of v.h? £0«"-d. Tiui&ni is just lending itself to the rest of the Dominion be laughed at. Hero is one cf the most prospective towr:S Ihafe Now Zealand possesses but at- the same time, here is die town that is mast slovenly managed. -Judging from your report- in this morning's "Herald,* 1 there might as we'll have been a woodeu man in the chair. He said nothing and »did nothing, aud that is no good to help along the prosperity of what might otherwise be a lastly increasing centre. It has to be renu'iubered that we have not only the other parts of Xew Zealand, but the other parts of the civilised world to battle against, and this cannot be dune on same lines that Timaru he-Ids its Council meetings. It would be a good idea if the members were reduced by at least one half, but failing that, it is the duty of every intelligent ratepayer to keep current matters in mind and to notify his opinion the next time he has the oppurtunitv.—l am. etc.. VEXTIS "YTIKHA FUXDIS.