Page 2 Advertisements Column 2

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 404, 18 June 1880, Page 2

JUST OUT. PETIUE'S NEW ZEALAND GEOGRAPHY. New edition. Is 6d. BATHGATE'S NEW ZEALAND: Its Resources and ProspectH. 2s. CKOMBIE'S GUIDE to the PROPERTY ASSESSMENT ACT. Is. WISE & CO., Booksellers and Stationers, DUNEDIN. TO THE BURGESSES OP THE BOROUGH OF. AKAROA. T ADIES & GENTLEMEN— J—J Jn consequence of the result of certain legal proceedings which have been taken against me by a member of the Council and with which you are all familiar, I have this day placed my resignation of my office as Councillor in the hands of His Worship the Mayor. I hope that my retirement may make room for some one who may be able and willing to serve you better. Notwithstanding all that has been stated to the contrary, I can conscientiously assert that I have never in any shape or form made my public position subservient to my private interest, and I believe this will be the verdict of those who have had the best opportunity of judging of my conduct—viz., those who have sat at the Council table with me. A statement was made by counsel engaged in the late cases against me, though no evidence was adduced in support of it, that £155 15s Id had been expended by the Council during the past year in advertising. The inference evidently intended to be drawn from this statement is that this sum had been paid to the Akaroa Mail. Now, the amount received by that journal during the period in question was really £58 14s Id ; so that any one making the statement that the Mail had received the larger amount ie guilty of uttering what the Premier of ISew Zealand would call a Deliberate Falsehood. My statements on this head are capable of very simple verification, and I am further in a position to prove that the Mail's account against the Council has been lower since I have been a member of that bodj , than it ever was before. In bidding you farewell, I may inform you that I believe an attempt will be made to deprive you of municipal institutions, that is to abolish the Borough and let it quietly lapse into an insignificant portion of a Road District. It requires really no demonstration to show that such a course would be absolutely suicidal, and I hope that you will meet it in a most determined manner, and first by at once suitably filling the two vacancies which now exist in the Council. I am, Your obedient servant, ALFRED G. WIGGINS.