The Feilding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, NOV. 28, 1893. THE MAYOEAL ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 127, 28 November 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. TUESDAY, NOV. 28, 1893. THE MAYOEAL ELECTION.

To-Monnow the Mayoral election for the Borough of Feilding will take place. The respective candidates are the present Mayor, Mr E. Goodbebere, and Mr W. Carthew, who is also a member of the Borough Council. Both are good men and worthy citizens. Mr Goodbehere has come forward for a second time as a candidate at the request of a considerable number of his fellow burgesses, and the same may be said of Mr Carthew, although he did not receive a written requisition, as did Mr Goodbehere. As it has become almost a recognised custom in this Borough, for some years past to invite Mayors who have done their duty faithfully and well, to fill the Mayoral chair for a second year, as a complimentary recognition of their services, it would be invidious, we venture to say, to pass over, or to make the exception of Mr Goodbehere now. He has done his duty to the utmost, and, at the same time, made himself thoroughly familiar with municipal affairs, or, to put it in another way, he has served^ his apprenticeship to the work, and if given a second year of office will be able to do more real good for the Borough than during his first term. Mr Carthew has been a member of the Borough Council for some years, and proved himself to be worthy of the position, and has also qualified himself up to a certain extent for the higher office of Mayor, and, no doubt, the burgesses if they do not to-morrow place him there, will do so on some future occasion. We are much pleased to note that Councillors are now more ambitious than they have been in past years. It is a most laudable desire on the part of any burgess to aspire to the highest honor his fellow townsmen can confer upon him. Where that ambition exists among members of the Borough Council the affairs of the ratepayers are certain to be well looked after, and the revenue carefully administered. We hope, then, that tomorrow the ratepayers will re-elect Mr Goodbehere as their Mayor for a second time. He not only deserves the honor but he has earned it. Faithful service deserves to be faithfully rewarded.