PUBLIC ENTERTAINING

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2475, 14 April 1909, Page 6

PUBLIC ENTERTAINING

[To The Editor.]

Sir, —The enthusiastic Lysnarites are making a big bugbear of the .fact that Mr W. Miller is not married and cannot, therefore, if elected, properly carry out the social duties of the Mayoral office. Now, sir, I have been in Gisboruo for some years and I should like to say right here that if Mr Miller could not do as much in the. way of public entertaining as has been done by his predecessors then certainly he could do no less. Take the Mayoral year that is just closing. What has the present Mayor or Mayoress done in the way of public entertaining? There has not been a singlo “At Home” or any other social function’ where the citizens could meet the Mayor and his wife. I am told that just after his election there was a smoko concert, or something of that sort of a semi-private nature. Also wo know that when Sir Joseph* Ward was up this way looking around for a suitable candidate for his party to contest the seat at the late elections he was taken in hand most devotedly by our Mayor. But as for public entertaining, we have had'none of it —despite the fact that- an honorarium of £l5O was voted —and it is sheer bunkum under the circumstances for Lysnarites to raise the question of public entertaining in order to make it a bogey against Mr Miller. Anyone who knojps the latter gentleman knows that 'his assurance, given publicly, that if elected he will be able to have the social duties of the office properly carried out, can b 9 relied upon and will understand that something better in this respect can be looked for than has been in evidence in the past.— I am, etc., “ANTI-HUMBUG.”