A REPLY TO MR LYSNAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2486, 27 April 1909, Page 6

A REPLY TO MR LYSNAR

[To Tiie Editor.]

Sir, —Mr Lysnar, after opening, said, •‘‘The form of administration as it stands to-day is wrong. I have done my best to make a change but not- having been .supported was unable to do QJ-l J 3 \ ■ -

I On no occasion has Mr Lysnar ever [brought forward or even hinted that ho would bring forward any measure for the alteration of the administration, whatever that might mean. , “Some of the Councillors had aided him, but the majority of them had been ‘against him, and had blocked the real progressive measures.” | Now, as a matter of fact he was challenged by Councillor Darton and myself at the last meeting of the Council bo name one instance other than the notorious Jickell incident, when he had net the opposition of which he complained. All his proposals with that the exception, were allowed to go to the 'atepayers. It is true the majority of he Council were desirous that tlic maters should be deferred till the money iiarket was more favorable, but that o might not have the same old oxuse they allowed the matters to bo s ealt with by the ratepayers, Mr L-ys-‘ar truly advocated in -a half-hearted 1 tanner that a proposal for a bridge mnectiiig Kaiti and Whataupoko be [deluded. "This suggestion was regardl by the Councillors as a sort of exise'for his covert opposition of Roeick Road bridge by wishing to hang i up till a bridge could bo got from siiti to Whataupoko, and was voted it almost unanimously. Regarding his ticn over Gentle Annie quarry the suit remains to be seen, for in any so tho County Council will exercise . 1 jurisdiction orer their own roads i d will not allow the Borough to churn ' ?m up without compensation. Every lividual councillor considers- that the i vation of the borough is the prosed tram line against which His Worp has absurdly matched the straker ggon. It must be generally conceded it if a new machine is constantly in . id of repairs, as it becomes older the 1 jessity for such repairs will become re frequent. Ir Lysnar’s finance is altogether too j astroiis to merit serious commentt > borough should have a loan and ild long since have had it according resolution had His Worship .not mis- ! you sly interfered. However, the •payers themselves have expressed m eloquent manner their views on Mayor's finance by rejecting by [whelming majorities ljis loan prods. [ jr Lysnar designates the spiral pipes 'Unserviceable mains” but every lable authority is against him and mains are the world over replac- : the costly and less pressure-resisting 'i iron pipes. The-Ai was only one jr scheme submitted to the pubafter careful consideration by the ! , ici 1. I. was not»then a member, but ag an active interest in these matT quite endorsed the selection of Hay’s scheme. Alternate tenders called in cast' iron and steel pipes, the difference between the two j ;t tenders was over £31,000, -and bsses will not be misled by Mr Lysjuggling with the figures of an : pved scheme by comparing them i those of a scheme which had been led. Mr Reynold’s first estimate pply from To Arai was £33,000,. lire of cost of acquisition of wat-er-jand he wound up his report as is: -

Summarising I have to advise you t in my opinion tho lagoon on lows’ estate is the most suitable ■'•co within reasonable distance a Gisborne from whence to ob- | a reliable and pure water sup-

krding the flood damage Mr Lysiagrees with Ai r B ay and perhaps o to be excused tor preferring ';opinion to Lysnar’s. Air Lysnar A took the opportunity or inforni?m that it van not 4\ arinata-n'R- | wanted, but il ; anybody wishes : up the newspaper files of April, nd June of 1901 he will be conthat after 8 years Mr Lysnar ianged his tune, irding Mr Lysnar’s statement i) was glad to see Mr Marcuant ning it is on y necessary to look •few weeks. 'When Mr Murchant Phis services the Mayor wanted re the letter, but councillors de--3 its full consideration. Had irchant’s namo been mentioned lof Jickell’s there would have trouble in the first place, as the I were desirous to get fullest in)ii, and on His Worship eiiieie at this first meeting, i n.necl mission of the resolution approvilr Mestayor’s scheme till i'urjrmation could be got; hut Mr would have that information other source than Jickcll, who jsted had drained Palmerston Br £30,000 and who could do ; for less. A. full report of the igs are contained in your Issue 3rd and June 17th, of last our readers will remember tnat for a scheme dispute a spot condemned by Mess' not £30,000 as His W orship bused, but £107,874 or more ' dimes more. j i-wliareparae leases. Why didi psnar look up a calendar ? Me lie leases expire in July 1101, [ [have to be considered J 3 ! ' ifore that date, even so. is that ; 1910 at least two imonths after S.piry of forthcoming mayoral i e knows, as a solicitor, how \ is.to say that lie will advocate j ig up of the blocks, and as a nan lie sliouid know that it 1 ely certain that the leaseill unquestionably exercise \ tof renewal. lie had refrained from bring•d the question of munieipili|ho gasworks as lie Lit the 1 constituted would not give elution. Three, years ago, at ition, this matter was gone ! la'to and found to be at that ! ;p;fcieable. ft i-s true that io S nand Invercargill the munii of gasworks is a good move, i of those towns the works ; -d on borough properties, and j--. Boases expired the borough j buy but- the plant ; but j; 'ft)iere- is a special act which £•' Impossible, for us to acquire I fprivate treaty. There are s|) shares, issued .and the nui i- ■ If-each share is £2 12s. It ; [L tlie' large amount of mo- !. IKy. and the -fast- that the

consent of all shareholders, most of whom are non-residents of this district, was essential were sufficient reasons to postpone action at that time. Tho factremains that Mr Lysnar has done absolutely nothing in redemption of his pledge of last year. He never brought the matter up in any shape or form. — I am, etc., J. F. SHERIDAN. *