THE SEWERAGE CONNECTIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3539, 1 June 1912, Page 8

THE SEWERAGE CONNECTIONS.

i(.TO THE EDITOR.)

Sir, —Councillor Bright, at the last meeting of the Gisborne Borough Council, remarked (which many people would have believed to be self-evident) that he had returned to the Council table evidently through carelessness. Incidentally he gave as a reason why he did not seek re-election years ago the fact that he could not convert the “enemy” to his way of thinking, but the ratepayers at that time were under the impression that Mr Bright knew when to “come in out of the wet,” as just anterior to his seat becoming vacant he was defeated for | a seat on the Harbor Board. But J that is by the way. The matter under | review which drew from the Councillor this sage remark was the sewerage installation, which had also received ■ some attention from the Trades and Labor Council, and that august body bad requested Cr Collins to sponsor their resolutions in the Municipal Council, and incidentally to give them a leg-up in their moderate request for monetary assistance in securing. these connections. Now Councillor Collins is ingenious, and it is extremely doubtful on that account if the Labor Party made a really good pick in selecting him to further their interests—as the gallant doctor led off by the frank statement that the resolutions he was asked to “Godfather” were the outcome of ignorance. However, this is not quite what I wanted to say, nor is it quite fair to Cr Collins, inasmuch as the speakers at the meeting of the Trades and Labor Council last Monday included no less than six rejected aspirants for municipal honors. This startling fact would appear to indicate that the people are good judges. His Worship the Mayor confined himself to the legal aspect of the question in concern, and it will he readily admitted that he was wise in so doing, for has not the absurd remark that “the law is a Hass” been disproved over and over

again. I fear that I am rambling, and I do' not wish, Sir, to be accused of prolixity, a fault from which 1 fear that neither His Worship, Crs Collins and Bright, nor the Executive of the Trades and Labor Council are exempt. I advance the opinion that it is a safe bet that the ratepayers will resist the present proposals to the “City Fathers” to put them to needless expense, and the sooner our representatives realise the position the better for the welfare of Gisborne. I am, etc., RATEPAYER.