THE MAYORALTY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 8

THE MAYORALTY.

I MR HOLLAND TO STAND FOR | .CHRISTCHURCH. ;\ Mr H. Holland.was asked by a reporter yesterday if he would be a candidate for. the-Mayoralty; this year. He said. that/He had been asked by a large number of-friends' to offer 'himself for " a further term, and he had decided j to place, his services at, the disposal . of the'citizens, for this year. 1 *: There are two main reasons for this, said Mr Holland; In the first place ', the Lake Coleridge scheme would not .'be completed by May 1 as was .antici-. ' fcipated last year.' This was from causes Completely''beyond, his, or the Council's Control. The second reason was that there was a disposition on the part' of the'local authorities surrounding the : icity, to make'this scheme a "Greater Christchurch Electrical Scheme" with which he was in complete Why he ;asked, should the outside the city boundary pay from eighty to One hundred per cent more, for electricity .than those inside the: city area, ffis'figures at'the conference last -week had not been challenged and he was confident the city could supply current v at about: half, the price that the boroughs could supply themselves. This scheme would be good, for the outsiders and ' good for the. city.. No outside thorough" could afford to, employ the •jjxpert knowledge the city possessed, knd-beside this the city had a stand-W-plant,-, and- no one could offer:' the '. facility that the city could. Then there ' - Vas the/question of the Town Hall, ;,! ind in all these, the experience gained 4 -jie ventured to think would he of ' value to the city. . ' Mr Holland' said that as ,he was leaving for Dunedin,' he thought it right •.'to his supporters that they shoiild I know before, he left that he had de- '' 1-' cided to comply with their wishes.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. "V.B.H. It is impossible to place a fixed price on the publication. Its value is largely a matter of sentiment, and depends upon the price an individual will give for it on account of old associations.