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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14363, 14 May 1920, Page 4

Borough Elections. HAMILTON, 13th May, 1920. TO THE ELECTORS OF HAMILTON. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— * We, the undersigned, offer ourselves for election as Councillors, and for the following reasons:— 1. Because the Mayor and six Councillors who resigned their office “developed a definite policy,” and you emphatically rejected that policy: and we believe a belter policy can be developed and completed, and the administration of the Borough put upon a better footing. 2. Because the issue they presented was not “too highly technical” for you to pass a true judgment upon. You did not trust the issue they presented, and your vote was a vole of no-confldence in them and their works. 3. Because to effectively carry on the . work of the Council an admission of fried men Into it is required for the remainder of the present term. In 12 months the whole Council will come before you for revision. Wo pass the following brief comments'on the 14 points in the Manifesto of the resigned Councillors published In the Times of the 12th Inst.:— 1. They wcVe a majority of the Council. They have broken all the records of the past as far as rates are concerned. The ratepayers have found more money for general purposes than in any one previous year. 2. The Borough has been re-valued during the. past year, and the rateable value greatly increased. It is therefore quite possible to apparently reduce the rates by striking a less rate in the £ and yet to raise more money. It is therefore your business to consider carefully to whom you will entrust the striking of the rates this year. 3. Every/ successive Council has recognised the fact that permanent works tend to minimise the evil of recurring maintenance, and each has done something in this direction. Past Councils have more to show for their labours than have the resigned. 4. That Hamilton has always needed road metal is a truism discovered ' many years ago. Every local body ■in (ho Waikato has made the same discovery. Sustained efforts have been made in the .past to discover a metal that would be at once suitable and economical. The Borough Supervisor has had a metal deposit some miles below Mercer brought under his notice. *■ It was not “discovered” by any “divining" power of the resigned Mayor. It has yet to he proved whether or not it will pay to work it. 5. Hamilton is already and now good to live in, and population has been , encouraged to (low in and enjoy the many advantages it offers in consequence of the labours of men who have given long years of service in the past. The resigned Mayor and Councillors positively did not act in the best interests of the Borough in the matter of securing an adequate supply of hydro-electricity. The Council has not made a formal application to the Public Works Department for power from Hora flora. 6. To encourage settlement, we hold the opinion that, in whatsoever part of the Borough a ratepayer has land suitable for subdivision, he should be encouraged to subdivide it and make it available for occupation and satisfy the requirements of the Council as to reading. 7. It is not the resigned Mayor and Councillors who have “produced the drainage scheme” to be laid before you. They may have assisted the Borough Supervisor in its development, hut they did not '■ initiate it. The previous Council initiated the schema and supported ihe Supervisor in his (then) novel , proposals and gave him dial support which lias made it possible to go ahead. ■ 8. It is pleasing to know that the Supervisor has consummated tiis plans for a refuse destructor, and It will be good to sec it in operation, and it will be the duty of the Council to expedite its completion. 9. The systematic compaign against noxious weeds should be, and doubtless will be, waged by tin’s and all succeeding Councils until the Borough is cleaned up. 10. The housing scheme referred to by the resigned will need many “slight adjustments" before Hie housing problem will be solved by it. It seems about as dead as the Dodo. 11. It is pleasing to read' that the District Fund has been kept within ( its income, but we must wait for the actual accounts before the matter is finally settled. If is, however, interesting to know that the rate struck last year was higher ■' and the resulting income greater titan any one year in the. previous history of the Borough—and what have we had for the expenditure. The Borough overdraft stands at a higher figure'than ever before, as mentioned above. 12. The ratepayers will doubtless be pleased to see the trading accounts referred to published, particularly the accounts of the Electricity Department. 13. Our aggregate of service to the ' Borough totals many years, and we can point all and sundry who visit our town to its growth and development on sound lines, and we have had no mean share in producing these tilings. 14. The six can truly show what they have done; as a matter of fact, everybody knows what they have, done—they resigned at a most critical time. Wc are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Yours Faithfully, .1. R. FOW, 303 W. F. MASON, J. E. TIDD, F. A. SNELL.