THE GLOBE. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1880. A PERMANENT MARKET.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2057, 27 September 1880, Page 2

THE GLOBE. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1880. A PERMANENT MARKET.

Some three weeks ago the Reserve Committee of tho City Council brought up a report in which they recommended tho Council to take into their consideration tho desirableness of either erecting a permanent market or letting tho site to a company for the purpose. Since that date nothing has been done in the matter. The time is just approaching when the present leases will fall in, and then the Council will find themselves in the position of having to decide this important question as it were on the spur of the moment. It must ho remembered that, involving as it does a fairly large expenditure of the public funds, the Council will doubtless wish to strengthen their Lands by taking the opinion of the ratepayers should they decide upon erecting the market themselves. AH this takes time, and unless the earliest possible moment is taken for commencing tho work, it r may he that the delay will prove inimical to the success of the scheme. The question to he decided, and it should be discussed fully and deliberately, is whether in the interests of the ratepayers it would he better for the Council to erect the market themselves, or let the site to a company. As wo have before pointed out at some length, tho balance is considerably in favor of tho former proposition. Tho Council, even if letting tho site, must incur some expense in providing for supervision of the market without reaping any very substantial benefit, whilst on tho other hand for a trifle more expense a very good addition to tho receipts of the city might ho obtained. Now that the matter has been brought forward, we trust it will not he allowed to drop, hut that steps will ho taken immediately to put tho matter in train. Despite tho protests of the stall holders in the present market, wo holievo no one will care to see that collection of shods existing for another year, so that, if only on this

account, tho Council should at once take the matter into their earnest consideration.

MR. AYERS AND THE MAYORALTY.

Mb. Ayers may well exclaim “ Save me from my friends 1 ” The energetic but highly indiscreet manner in which tho “ Star ” conducts its advocacy of Mr. Ayers’ candidature can only have tho effect of completely damning any chance Mr. Ayers might have had of wearing the Mayoral chain. To commence the electioneering campaign by insulting the whole of the burgesses by calling all those who do not favor Mr. Ayers “snobs”—showed had taste. Tho endeavor to trace the authorship of letters and leading articles which appear in other journals to one individual, and ascribing evil motives, is not reputable, nor calculated to |serve Mr. Ayers’ cause. It would be no less objectionable were any one to suggest that a liberal use of the good things at Mr. Ayers’ command might have procured the support of certain violent partisans. To do so would not bo decent, and would impute a reflection on Mr. Ayers’ character which wo could not for one moment entertain. In former days elections in Christchurch, though vigorously contested, were invariably conducted in a respectable, good tempered manner, tho result being that after the election both sides could shake hands and be as friendly as ever. Such an objectionable epithet as “ snob ” or “ barber ’ was never used, and for Mr. Ayers’ sake wo greatly regret that the “ Star” should have made use of such gross vulgarity on this occasion. Wo find that in our article of Thursday last one or two slight inaccuracies crept in, which wo regret. Mr. Ayers was not Chairman of the Water Supply and By-law Committees in 1879-80, as we stated, but ho was a member of those Committees, and did nothing to redeem the pledges he made in his amusing manifesto to the ratepayers. As to tho matter of the Tramway Committee, we were in error in stating that he was connected with it.