OUR READERS’ OPINIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3704, 13 December 1912, Page 5

OUR READERS’ OPINIONS.

THE ANXIETY ABOUT OR

COLLINS

(TO THE EDITOR.) Sir, —What does all this anxiety about Cr. Collins and his mode of procedure re borough matters mean? Surely no .well-balanced person expected that he could carry into effect the reforms so loudly proclaimed by a few of his “barrackers” during the late election contest ? Since his reelection Cr. Collins has no doubt had time for reflection, and must have come to the conclusion that his methods of gaining municipal notoriety had the effect of bringing him into political contempt. His chief method of warfare —making longwinded speeches, with wandering tendencies —was cut from beneath ■ his feet by the action of the Borough Council in making a time limit to speeches. Even this little reform must mean a big saving in gas alone, by gas I mean the illuminant, not the rhetorical —for we And the Council meetings get through a large amount of useful business at a very early hour, and this fact alone will be an inducement to really able men to offer their services to the electors in future. As regards Cr. Collins’ advisory committee, the majority of peo, pie looked upon the idea as a huge joke, and it is inconceivable that serious men should have allowed themselves to be made the catspaw of a few who wished to pave the way for Cr. Collins in his ambition after the Mayoralty. There is certainly one consolation to be derived from the late election, and that is that the best man in tbe community for the position of Borough Overseer has been appointed, because if the embittered feeling' engendered over the contest bad not taken olace Mr Dart on would have had no chance. As to Cr. Collins’ remark that he was pleased at the choice the Councillors had made in the appointment, many of us, like the Scotchmen, “hae oor dobts.” However, all’s well that end well, and let us hope that Cr. Collins will resign again, for he will have the distinguished honor of prefixing to his - name in future the ignoble title of “Ex-Cr. Collins.” —Yours, etc., “ANTI-HUMBUG.”