THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2089, 3 November 1880, Page 3

THE MAYORAL ELECTION.

Ail m v/xvaxi aviiinv«**v«” fAe Editor of the Globe. Sib, —I see by an advertisement in your Isaac of last night that Mr Gapes, one of the candidates for the Mayoral chair, is to have a public meeting in the Oddfellows’ Hell on Friday evening next. This, I think, is a step in the right direction and a privilege wmoh we should claim from all such candidates, nor should we allow the larrikinism which is rife on such occasions to prevent such a right being acceded to us; but, as citizens, wo should use our influence to annihilate all such inconsistencies as would prevent a speaker being heard impartially. There are many important subjects before the Council which are likely to engage more than ordinary attention for some time to come, and there are also some interesting questions which the electors would like to put to the candidates. I myself would like to ask a question on a subject which cropped out of the surveyor’s report last Monday night, which I consider would be a standing disgrace to any corporation were its continuance allowed after being brought before its notice. It is this, “By what authority does the city surveyor assume the right to call out the channel sweepers on Sundays when necessary, to do the Council’s work without pay.” From inquiry of several councillors, I am happy to state that the Council has hitherto been ignorant of this practice, and that our surveyor has done it on his own responsibility. But what do we inter from such conduct ? Heio is another instance of the servant ruling the master. More civil service governing the country. How necessary that some one should watch the interest of these poor sweepers. It would be more satisfactory, far, to the ratepayers generally if some of the gentlemen receiving £4OO per year in this office for ordering work to bo done,_ and insulting the common courtesy which man should show to man, irrespective of his position in life, were dispensed with altogether, and replaced with others equally efficient but less assuming. Yours, &c., J. P. OLIVER.

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