BOROUGH WORKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5142, 22 June 1927, Page 2

BOROUGH WORKS.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Your correspondent “A Ratepayer ” in your issue of Friday last has indeed dropped a bombshell in our midst. Our present Mayor and council for the past seven years have possessed the confidence of the ratepayers. We were all under the inn pression that our money was being faithfully applied towards the upkeep and progress of our town. Certainly we did not possess the technical knowledge of your correspondent, nor were we able to afford the time necessary to keep check of all the details, including cost of material, labour, etc., connected with the various classes o' work. Still, we had faith in the knowledge, integrity, and business experience of the Mqyor and his council, and now all this is .to. be shattered ! If “A Ratepayer” had only obtained his knowledge of the facts and had been in a position to prove them prior to the last, election he might have saved us (as It now appeal's) the humiliating experience of again expressing our confidence in our present City Fathers by returning them practically unopposed. As it is, we must now take our medicine like men, much as we dislike our frailties exposed. I suggest that “A Ratepayer” call a meeting of the ratepayers and lay before them facts and figures showing the incompetency and ■mismanagement of the present council. Or will he supply this necessary information through the Press ? In view of the near approach of further loan proposals it is certainly his duty to enlighten the ratepayers. D. LEACH.