MATTERS MUNICIPAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 262, 21 January 1879, Page 2

MATTERS MUNICIPAL.

To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail. Sir, —No doubt the ratepayers will appreciate Cr Cullen's silly gush of economy in not advertising for candidates to fill the office of clerk, when they learn that more than one gentleman was prepared to undertake the duties of the office for £50 per annum. It is quite time the farce of nominally keeping an office open from 10 till 4 daily and a clerk at a £100 a year.to collect some £200 of rates was at an end. Here iv a field for economical councillors. Perhaps Cr Billens may be able to resist the temptation of supplying the Borough with the articles he deals in, and a saving could be effected in advertising for councillors to fill the place of Cr Billens, resigned. I am not much of a judge of what are called standing orders, but the way councillors coHduct their meetings stands sadly in want of order. The whole civic business gets jumbled up like some horrid nightmare. More Acts have been sent for, I see. The last batch have been one of the stumbling blocks of the Council, Instead of quietly attending to their duties like sensible men of business, we shall be treated to legal opinions of the sea and bush variety. ANOTHER BURGESS.