APATHY IN AUCKLAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 269, 7 August 1920, Page 7

APATHY IN AUCKLAND

." WHAT ABOUT WELLINGTON? (Contributed by' Town-Planning Asociation.) Auckland is. so frequently held up as Vi. city of "boosters" that one finds it difficult to believe that the figures of the poll 011 the recent loan proposals havo been correctly reported. Can it really bo true that out of 15,340 Auckland ratepayers entitled to vote only 1332 exercised that right? Tf so, then "there'ssomething rotten in the Slate of Denmark." However, what concern's us is how Wellington'ratepayers'lire going to act when the' City Council asks them to vote 011 the forthcoming loans for' development works. Soine people : seem to labour under tho delusion that they have nothing io do with the Tunning of the city, that it is a sort of business owned and run by a few men whoso names t.hcy see in the papers now and again. How manv people in Wellington know tho names of the City Councillors, for instance? It is to the interest of every ratepayer to give ftced to the business of the' citv. Everyone entitled to do so should make a special point of voting 011 the loan proposal when the time comes, for the future welfare of our city may depend upon the result of the poll. Lack of interest oh tho part of Mirnmar ratepayers was displayed last week,, and now we see the same apathy in Auckland. On the actions of present-day citizens depends the comfort and well-being of future generations, and it is our bounden duty to avail ourselves of tho privileges of citizenship. \ot© one waj or the other, only—vole!