SIXES AND SEVENS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7922, 23 August 1917, Page 2

SIXES AND SEVENS.

A MUNICIPAL BEAR GABI| NAPIER’S JOY. (Own Correspondent). NAPIER, This di * Since the burgesses, in their wuj iecided on a radical change in the ititution of the Municipal Com hey have not wanted for enter nent in the reading of their < papers. The reports of Con neetings contain more humor to square inch than columns of mat m a comic journal. “Reform” was, of course, they plank in the election platform oft najority of the councillors, and th Attempts at bringing about this i form have led to the complete! Arganisation of the working 9 Several of the Reformist s have be liming their shafts of criticismat| ramway and electric lighting ment, but the fact that if the pra returns keep up and no extraordim expenditure is incurred these mu cipal undertakings will this year A a clear profit, after making fullalk nice for depreciation, etc., of 0 £3OOO, has taken the wind out of tk sails.

Then there has been considenl trouble over the publication of rept if committee meetings. Council! have not been able to ascertain source of the leakage of informiti md are up in arms. Indeed, one co cillor has gone the length of giti notice to move that the represent!! of one paper be excluded from 1 meetings of the Council, ignorant the fact that councillors have not slightest right to exclude any mem of the public from open meeting!. Another councillor, who is fim ■dally interested in pictures, *1 ilmost everything municipalised,h ■lotable exception is pictures. W lot go the whole hog? Burgesses desired a change. T have got it, but the general feel is that if another poll were taken morrow these “star refonnii would find that they had gone do very considerably in the estimation the general public.