BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 387, 20 April 1880, Page 3

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

To the Editor of ilie Akaroa Mail.

Sir, —I noticed a sub-leader in the last issuebf the Akaroa Mail, touchinguponthe proceedings of the Borough Council, which has caused a vast amount of agitation and comment amongst our small community. Now, Mr Editor, if you will permit me to pass my opinion on the matter, I would say that I most fully concur with the sentiments you express. I have little doubt that the subject must have been a most delicate one for you to handle, and I consider it would have been impossible for you to blend justice and leniency together with greater skill than you have done. If, as I believe, is the case, one or two to whom you may have alluded, or, at any rate, who find the cap to fit them, are savage about it, and are going about swearing vengeance on the author and ruination to the paper, they are only testifying to their narrow-minded littleness. You had a duty to perform, and you performed it. The object of the Press is, in my opinion, to look after and represent the interests of the public, and you would be failing to perform your duty had you any longer kept quiet on the Bubject, and by so doing you would have lost a just claim to support. Not only was the time of tho Councillors being absorbed and taken up nightly with a considerable amount of bunkum and stump oratory, but owing to that very fact the interests of the ratepayers were overlooked and the expenditure of their money abused. I consider that the people should shew their appreciation one and all ot your conduct, and instead of taking a foolish offence should profit by your hints and endeavor to aid and assist you by bringing extra support to the paper.

I am, PATERFAMILIAS.