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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2659, 15 November 1909, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. AND CURLED equal to Vv' new. All and sundry 'kinds of Feather Work executed at the shortest notice. One Trial means your constant custom. SO TRY US. YOUR SUIT MADE TO LOOK LIKE NEW for the small sum of— 7 s - For which Price w r e will Clean and Tailor-press it. Last Year’s Summer Costumes ( 1 suited by our Special Dry-Cleaning recess. Look equal to new ones. We also cater for Repairs of all classes of goods at very moderate rates. Materials of all descriptions DYED any shade in fast colours. CUSTOMHOUSE STREET. (’Joins Gladstone Road at P. 0.) ■Tel. 485. First-class English Certificate. COOK COUNTY ELECTION. TO THE RATEPAYERS. GISBORNE-RIDING COOK COUNTY. Gisborne, Pith Nov., 1900. J ADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— At the request of a number of Ratepayers, I have consented to offer my services as a Candidate for the Gisborne Riding at the Cook Countv Elec-' tion, which takes place next Wednesday, the 17tli inst. 1 exceedingly regret that in doing so I should again*have to oppose the Hon. (’apt. Tucker, one of the old settlors'of the District, and who has held the position of Chairman of the Cook County Council for a number of years past, but 1 have- decided to oppose him, not for personal reasons ,but as a duty one owes to a. progressive District, as I feel the past administration of the Council is not giving satisfaction, and the Hon. Capt. Tucker, as Chairman, must- take more than the ordinary share of responsibility. Judging by the past, it is impossible to bring about a change of administration for the better without making a change of the Members of the Council. The dissatisfaction in the Council’s pc-st administration lias caused the severance of the Waikoliu County, and the Tologa and Waimata Ridings are now’ also applying to he; cut off for the same reason. There is also the intimation that the Te Arai portion of the Countv will also applv to sever, which I feel can be avoided if the Council matters are imt on a hotter footing. Last year the County Council exhausted its full limit of overdraft, and at the .same time struck the heaviest rate ever-struck by.the Council, yet at times it could not pay its workmen, whi.e our reads are in a worse condition. I would ask. “Is this right?” Does it not show’ that the control of the Council is bail, and, if so, is it- not better’to make a change ? And in order to do this I would ask the Ratepayers to put aside friendship and to look at the matter from a business point or view only. The rate struck last year amounted to over 3s 6d per acre of, flat lands, valued at say £3O an acre. 1 his rate is a big handicap to Farmers, and I consider that by better administration it can lie substantially reduced, which is my sole aim in standing. Because of the roads being unable to stand the traffic, the carters were threatened with harassing Bye-laws regarding wide tyres and limiting the weights of loads. 1 do not believe in the traffic being hampered' in this way, but think the roads should be made to stand the traffic, which I am sure, with the cheap money now' offering through the Government, they can be without increasing the rates. I maintain that, except for extraordinary reasons, every riding should get its own contribution of rates, less its quota, for general administration. The overdraft of the County Council on the 30th September last was £15,420, and the Council had, besides, a lot of outstanding liabilities unpaid, while the legal limit of th<v Council’s overdraft is £16,280. 1 feel it is wrong for us to bo paying the heavy Bank interest, on so large an overdraft when much cheaper money oan Ik* got by wav of loans, and the Government will pay back half the- borrowed money by paying halt the sinking fund. ~ I also think it right to oppose the lion. Capt. Tucker because of his attitude on the Harbor Board. He, with others, has for years past been backing up heavy expenditure in the River, which I feel is more or less being wasted, and there is no finality co the work and the expenditure. I also think it is wrong to lengthen, the breakwater at a cost of over £13,000 Without the approval of the Ratere rs. .'lie wharfages have this year, been rcased practically 50 per cent, and will, I am afraid, have a full Har- ■ Rate to pay next year, which we re- not had for some years past, and i.m pure need not have bad if the rbor matters had been handled in • right way. ‘ . ... n conclusion. I would say that if you - satisfied with the way the. .County moil has been carried on in the past, in show your approval of it by vot- ; for tire'Hon. Capt. Tucker; and it i are dissatisfied, then show your disrroval by voting for me. I am, vours respectfully. C. J. PARKER. MORERE HOT SPRINGS. EAVES the Masonic Stables every J THURSDAY MORNING, at 7 dock for Wharcrata, Tarawa, Morero, d Nuhaka. _ Returning.to Gisborne on TUESDAY, issengers and Luggage conveyed to d from either Hotel at Morore. BOOKING OFFICE : Masonic Stables, iwe Street, Gisborne. All Parcels must be PREPAID. jINGO” EUCALYPTUS should be in every home.