WANGANUI COUNTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 8

WANGANUI COUNTY

CHAIRMAN RE-ELECTED TRIBUTES TO HIS CAPABILITIES. Mr. Duncan Mackintosh was reelected chairman of lhe Wanganui County Council yesterday for the eighth time in succession. Cr. A. Collins, proposing Mr. Mackintosh for the position, said that of rJI the local body chairmen in the district he was the best. Seconding the nomination. Cr. D. McGregor said that Mr. Alackintosh was the most capable man to fill the position, particularly now as there was a new Government, and the council was forced with a good deal of difficulty in the way of higher wages and altered conditions. Replying to the courtesy of his fel-low-councillors for re-electing him, Mr. Mackintosh said that he appreciated the assistance his council had invariably given him. “One thing which has made the position easy for me to fill is the class of councillor sitting at this table,” Mr. Mackintosh said. “On everything brought up they always take a broad view, not one of them looking at things for their own benefit but for the good of the county as a whole. We certainly have a new Government and certainly things do look a bit hard. What the Government is doing may be perfectly light, but it does place us in an awkward position not knowing what the Government’s policy is in regard to local bodies and roads. However, before long we will probably know that.” Looking back on the past year, Mr. Mackintosh said that it was nothing but slips, slips, slips. "We all realise the difficulties we have had to face during the past 12 months,” hr continued, “and we can only hope that those difficulties do not continue.”