MR. CASTLE'S CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 149, 27 June 1933, Page 8

MR. CASTLE'S CAMPAIGN

A well-attended meeting of Mr. J. Castle's supporters and friends was held in No. 2 Committee Koom, Town Hall, last night. Mr. Castle explained that he had entered the contest for the purpose of preventing an election. He had consulted with the two M.P. candidates,' who would have agreed to accept, his offer to serve the city and thus save £600, -which money could have been put to a much better purpose, but the partisans disagreed. There were several things which the poll would reveal apart from the question of who should be elected. It would prove whether the

burgesses were still content to remain under the dominance of a self-appointed coterie of dictators, and whether tho larger body of ratepayers in the city were content to make up tho difference of £788,598 in reduced valuation totals, by which tho poor paid more than tho rich. Asked whether he was in favour of the Bowen Street western access route, Mr. Castle said that he had always favoured that route, but ho thought that if there had .been fewer members of Parliament on the City Council, the work would have been carried out years ago. Mr. Castle said that a number of written questions which he had received through the post would be answered at his meeting in the Concert Chamber. Those present expressed tho wish that the candidate would be successful, and said that they would work to that end. Mr. Castle replied with tho old quotation: " 'Tis not in mortals to command success, but oh! Tempronius, let us deserve it."