MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 912, 10 June 1903, Page 2

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

RESIGNATION OF COUNCILLOR R. N. JONES.

At Lin.- meeting of the Borough Council last night, the following letter from Councillor Jones was lead : His Worship tiie .Mayor, Gisborne. Gisborne, 9th June, 1903. Dear Sir. —ln enclosing my resignation I should like to thank you and all the Councillors for the uniform

courtesy and kindness that have always been shown to uie while a inembei of tile Council. I should also Enough you desire to convey my thanks to the burgesses lor the honor which they have from time to lime conferred on me. Throughout my public career 1 have always felt that a public oliice is a public trust requiring that, I should treat the ai-. tairs of the people with as much if not more care than my own, and it has been great satisfaction to me to feel and know that the burgesses appreciated my slight efforts. Only the conviction that 1 can he of some use to the people in assisting to hiing ibis district to the proud position which it will some day occupy lias tempted me to abandon local polities for what. 1 believe and hope will he a wider sphere of usefulness. Again thanking you. Yours faithfully,R. hi. JONES. Accompanying the letter was a notilication of the resignation. ‘‘Whilst. J congratulate CT Jones on his appointment,” said the Mayor j “ 1 am very sorry that we are going to lose him as a Councillor, lie has been a very useful member of the Council, always a courteous one, and his assistance has been very great indeed. We must all admit that he has taken a progressive view, and done everything to assist in the advancement of the borough. Though 1 am sorry vve are going to lose him as a Councillor, as he foreshadows, lie is probably going to take up a position in which lie will he of more service to the district than he could on this Council. 1 hope that such will be the ease. 1 believe that he wil> from his intimate knowledge, of the district and his high position, he able to give great assistance in the clearing up of that intricate problem that has lor so many years concerned this district, as to the best means of getting the native lands settled. (Or Whinray : Hear, hear !) Every member of the Council, 1 am sure, will wish him success. (Hear, hear.) lie will he able to grasp that sub- | jeer, as he has grasped the subjects

that have come before us here, and that lie will do his best to progress all along the line. (Hear, hear.) Although we will all he sorry at the loss the Council has sustained oil account of his resignation, we will all wish him every success in his new position. I thought at first that it would not he necessary lor him to resign, but it appears that it is so, and we will have to accept it, and

notify an extraordinary vacancy, lie ha-3 not only been a diligent Councillor. hut has been very attentive as a member of tile Charitable Aid Board lie has been a constant visitor to the Old Men’s Home, Sind has given valued assistance and. advice. He took great pleasure in. going there and talking to the old men, and 1 dare say that even though not a member of the Board he. will still be a frequent visitor, for visitors are always welcome there, especially such visitors as we know will assist to smoothe the troubles and difficulties surrounding the working of that institution. (Hear, hear.) He is, 1 know, very anxious to see the new building put up, and- generally to hav?. matters made very much better than they are at the' present time.’ The retiring Councillor said that he would like 'permission, as a matter of courtesy, to remain for the Board meeting that night, and His Worship said that, the members would he only too pleased for him to do so.