THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 135, 2 November 1877, Page 2

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOB OF THE AKAKOA MAIL.

Sir, —Having been given to understand that the time is , drawing very close when another election to the office of Mayor of this Borough will take place, may I ask you to allow me space for a few remarks on this important matter. You must know, Sir, that I am not one of those who scoff at our public bodies, .and make light of the duties required of our fellow citizens who come forward in a public capacity tor the good'of tins common weal. lam of opinion that, though we are but a small community, and our Borough seems thrown in the shade when compared with the larger and more populous centres of civilization, still the. administration of our affairs, and the proper conduct of our public business is proportionately as important as in other places. To effect this, then, it behoves the burgesses of this town to select the best men to represent them in I the Council, and. above all, the most able man to preside as that Council's head. Our present Major deserves the hearty thanks of the citizens for his untiring , assiduity and attention to his dutiesduties wbicli were porfeotly new and strange to him. anil which it requires considerable ability, tact, and judgment to master and fulfil.- On his shoulders rested the by-no-meaiis easy burden of training raw material, of initiating a new institution, and of guiding and instructing men, willing enough, but perfectly ignorant of the forms and customs required in the execution of their self-imposed duties. I say. Sir,.thtit the thanks of the burgesses are due to him for the manner in which he has acquitted himself. Being given to understand that his Worship does not intend to come forward for re-election, I desire now. in time, to urge upon my fellow-burgesses'the necessity for their serious attention to the question of whom they intend to elect in his stead, and I would call upon such of our townspeople (and there are three or four) who have the means, time, and, above all, the ability to worthily till' this honourable position, to come forward and do their duty to the town, and let the burgesses elect from them the one that seems to tlicm best, hi this case, as in all others, let our motto l>e " Progression," not " Retrogression." Yours, &c,