RETRENCHMENT.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 661, 4 March 1869, Page 3

RETRENCHMENT.

To the Editor of the Ilawlce's Bay Times. Sir, —Would you kindly insert the

following in yonr next number • Fellow-settlers of the Province of Hawke’s Bay,—This month being the last during the present year for ■ registering as voters, and as the elec-, O O ' tors of the Pi ovince will no doubt be ( shortly called upon to exercise their . discretion as to whether we shall < submit longer to the unjust and ; underhand way in which things are ( carried on in this Province, your , earnest attention is directed to the < importance of at once securing the 1 privilege; and of being united on the ! all-important subject of Retrenchment. In whatever district of the Province a candidate may appear, < the first and most important ques 1 tion we should ask him is, —“"Will , you go in for retrenchment to suit ( the present depressed times ? ” And i let us be determined to give no sup- i port to any candidate who is not j prepared to pledge his word to sup- i port every measure likely to promote ( economy and retrenchment. As we « find that certain classes combine to- ; gether to attain their object, let us | do the same, but with this exception ] —let us be politically honest, and < not record our votes for the benefit ( of a few to the injury of the many. ’ Before many months we shall be ' called on to send two fit and proper | persons to represent us in the Gene- ■ ral Assembly. Probably the present members will offer themselves for | re-election. Before we promise to , support them we should have their ■ pledge that they will support any i measures beneficial to the mass, whether introduced by the Government 1 or any private member, such as— J Ist, vote by ballotfc; 2nd, retrench- , ment in all official departments, both i General and Provincial; and 3rd 1 (and most important), the substitu- ' tion of a Property and Income Tax for the present means of raising revenue, as the most equal and just, as well as the most easy and inexpensive of collection.—Yours, &c., Retrenchment. Rapier, March 1, 1869.