AMALGAMATION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 612, 25 May 1891, Page 2

AMALGAMATION.

The public mind is now so clearly made up in favor of the amalgamation proposal that its discussion need not be protracted, Nearly all the leading men in the district have declared in its favor. True, a legal luminary still does a little piping incofr. on his pet flute, but the public are not charmed by such music. Our contemporary, sad to say, is taking its gruel badly, and in its distressingly peevish state is going to make some one suffer for its discomfiture. Mr Warren is to be hunted out of the position which he so ably fills, by the offer of /200 a year, Mr Witty is to be Wharfinger, .Secretary and errand boy, Mr - is to be a /200-a-year Town Clerk and errand boy, Mr Robinson is to be dismissed, and—well that’s all I There will be the excitement of trying to hoist friends into the vacancies. If It should happen that some long-winded County, Harbor, and Borough ratepayer should be summonsed at the one time for his different rates, all the men will have to dance attendance at the Court, and the honest men who go to the various offices on such days to pay their rates or wharfages, or to seek information, will find the office doors locked, and they can dawdle about the street corners while the lawyers are firing off their legal ammunition in Court I AU that might he joyful, but we are not enraptured with the prospect. We prefer Mr Bright’s anti-skinflint-but-economy-efficiency policy. “Economy with Efficiency’’ is what the amalgamationists want, in the interest of the whole body of ratepayers. The opposition have now taken up the ground of “Miserliness and Inefficiency,' l and the ratepayers would sooner have Something better when they can get it.