The Lady Mayor.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 198, 22 December 1893, Page 3

The Lady Mayor.

(PEB. PBESB ASSOCIATION). Auckland, December 20. At the installation of Mrs Yates a» Mayor of Onehunga, there was a' representative attendance of councillors, who received her standing, Dr Erson, the retiring Mayor, handed her the keys of the council building. He asked her to remember, in giving her judgments, the motto on the back ot the chair she would occupy. " Be jnst and fear not." Mrs Yates said she did not require to be reminded of the motto " Be jnst and fear not," as she had been that all her life. She considered that in the service of the ratepayers who had placed her at the head of the poll she would find a sufficient incentive to place before herself At any rate, she would carry out the duties of her office to the best of her ability. She did not know whether the town clerk was resigning on account of herself, but she hoped for his honos as a man that it was not so. She happened to be the first lady mayor in the British Empire, but she hoped it would only be a beginning. Would any man in the room say that his house would bo better without a wife in it? And why should^not the same be applied to the council? She predicted that they would find that the affairs of the borough would be looked after more efficiently with a woman at their head.