A NASTY PILL

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

A NASTY PILL

[To The Editor.]

Sir, —In looking through some old copies of the “Times” the other day I came across a letter written by Mr W. F. Crawford, which seems to me sucli a bitter pill for the anti-Lysnar-ites that I would like to submit it again to see if thev can swallow it. Mr Crawford puts the position so clearly that I have no hesitation in craving some of your space to reprint the. following portion : —“Our Mayor, Mr Lysnar, has amply shewn, and publicly proved, that he has the initiative to introduce, the skill to allocate, and the ability to plan the economical application of the funds to the best ends. He. is not only capable in the necessary qualifications, but extremely successful in the measures and reforms he has forced through his fellow members by his indomitable pluck and patient, persistent advocacy in every council that he has been a member of. The following is a rough sketch of some of the many public benefits he has either initiated, or in which he has been the moving spirit, sparing neither mind, body, nor estate. (1) He was an active member of the Railway League. (2) Ho was a promoter of*the Sheep Farmers’ Freezing Works. (3) He killed the Waihirero water scheme. (4) Ho fought hard for the amalgamation of Greater Gisborne. (5) He strongly condemned the use of spiral pipes. (6) He fought the new harbor tariff to adoption, which has made the ships pay a fair charge, to the relief of wharfages, and is freeing the harbor district of rates. (7) He. worked hard for the street and recreation loan proposals, which would have improved the Borough finances and made our roads without additional taxation to ratepayers. (8) He introduced a loan scheme iu the County Council that would have altered the present deadlock in its affairs without over-bur-dening its ratepayers. (9) He introduced JickAi’s drainage scheme, a simpler, and more economical one than Mcstaycr’s. (10) Ho directed the attention to the Kaitaratahi shingle, and lias, of hi 3 own motion, introduced such economical machinery for handling it that it can be delivered in town at half price. (11) He cheapened the Patutahi metal by the introduction of the St raker waggon and economical handling. (12) He is engaged in acquiring and opening up a quarry at Gentle Annie Hill for the Borough, of Fetter stone than Patutahi.” Now, Sir, the facts advanced here by Mr Crawford have, so far as I know, not been answered up to the present. The reason is not hard to seek; they cannot be controverted. —I am, etc., “ANOTHER LYSNARITE.”