PROBLEMS FOR CITY COUNCIL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 110, 13 May 1941, Page 7

PROBLEMS FOR CITY COUNCIL

DIFFICULT TIMES AHEAD VIEWS OF MR. C. N. MACLEAN. A particularly heavy responsibility ,-ould be on the incoming City Council, said Mr. C. N- Maclean, a Citizens' Committee candidate, speaking at Lurie Hill last night. The council, he added, should give a telinite lead in every possible way to the community in connection with the var effort. The resources in manpower and money must be used to the best possible advantage. Everybody should understand what he is to do in an emergency, not merely those who are serving in the E.P.S. or the Home Guard. It might be possible to organise further collections of scrap metal, and if this were so the council should do it.

If an emergency arose it might not i>e possible to get instructions from Wellington and there would be a great advantage in having men like Mr. E. B. Tustin and Mr. E. W. Merewether at’ the head of affairs. They were men of proved leadership in dangerous and difficult circumstances. It was the grossest folly to elect again iien who had no such experience beilnd them.

When the war was over ’extremely difficult problems would remain, and more than ever the city would need the services of men who understood the point of view of the returned soldier, who had proved ability as business executives to make every sixpence go as far as possible, and who had the education and the vision to enable them to plan intelligently for the future. For all these reasons the citizens of Wnaganui should make their choice among the candidates with very great care. They would get the kind of Mayor and council they deserved and if they made a mistake would suffer from it for the next three years.

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