ONSLOW

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 28 April 1914, Page 7

ONSLOW

THE MAYORAL CONTEST

- Mr. C. C' Crump, a candidate for the Mayoralty of Onslow, addressed a meeting in the Khandallah Town Hall last evening. Mr.-J..JL Grant presided. Mr. Crunip stated' that his ''experience as a business, man would enable him to act in the .best interests of the borough, in mattbrß of finance. He had- no personal, end to serve in his candidature and he was willing to work for the .good of the majority in all things. With regard to the maintenance and construction of roads he would see that all money spent in this connection would bo spent in the right direction. The roads or the borough were not exactly in the best of condition, and if elected ho would make it his business to'see that the main road was always given preference in regard to upkeep. That Tiad been a glaring piece of mismanagement in spending £330 in regard to the. Victoria Road, and this amount would probably be brought up to £370. .He criticised this expenditure and added that he. would much rather have seen this sum spent in reducing the borough overdraft, or even in the improvement of Boxhill Road. He was strongly in favour of a water scheme. Things were going to improve wonderfully in Wellington within the next twelve-months and money would he plentiful for borrowing. He intended to go thoroughly into -the matter of ascertaining which scheme would be best and ho would let the ratepayers know the result of his investigations in duo courseLooking into tho cost of water (and ; drainage, and looking at the'' present debt, of the , borough (between £13,000 and £14,000 with. the added Hutt Road apportionment, it was impossible to consider those'schemes as apart from the Greater Wellington aspect. _ He would go' into thisr question. In view of the amount of money that would bo necessary for water and drainage, they would have a rato just as high as Wellington. He was willing to support the water and drainago installation provided that the rateEayors wished it—-their • interests were is.; With regard to the rates, he was not going to say whether they wero going to be raised or not. They had to go on ahead, but ho was not in favour of anything of magnitude being carried out unless the ratepayers had a loan proposal placed before them. He thought that the apathetic attitude, of the ratepayers was a crying shame. They took as much interest in the council as anyone took in a dog. In Conclusion the speakor said that, if elected, he wanted to feel that he was under no obligation to anyone in particular. Id answer to a question, the candidate said that ho would endeavour to bring down water and drainage schemes within six months if elected. A large number of other questions were answered, and on tho "notion of Mr. M. Thomson a vote of thanks was carried unanimously.