A FEW REMARKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1395, 8 May 1915, Page 2

A FEW REMARKS.

(To the Editor)

Sir. —Iu one of your late issues you said that you regretted that mote interest was not taken in the election for the Mayor and Councillors. In my opinion, Mr Editor, you —more than anyone else—are to blame that so little interest was taken in them. The Wellington Harbour Board and the Wellington Hospital Board as reported in the Wellington papers aie attunes very lively and most interesting reading. We very rarely see the report in full of a good speech made by any of our Councillors. Why r Had you reported fully Mr Kempsters or Mr Read’s speeches perhaps they would still have been members of the Council! In case the new Councillors have nothing to talk about a lew hints will do no barm. How long is the rubbish depot at the corner of Johnston Street and Union Street going to remain there ? Has the. Inspector of Nuisances no power to see that it is cleaned up and disinfected ? How much longer is the fence in front of the Manchester Boardinghouse going to remain down ? Mr Breen had to leuce his section in the Main Street! Why not treat all alike ? Tne late gas manager was instructed to install meters to some ot the street lamps for the purpose ot finding out how mauy feet of gas each lamp consumed per hour. I wish to know if those meters were read by the members of the gas committee at that time|? It so does the consumption for the whole of the street lamps work out at twenty niue or thirty thousand feet each mouth as per gas manager’s report ? Miss Carter gave cooking demonstrations in the supper-room of the Town Hall every atternoou last week from say two till five o'clock, she said , the cost should be about ijjd in 1 Wellington aud 3d iu Foxtou. Cau you tell me the exact amount ol gas consumed per day and the actual cost ? She had, 1 believe, five buruers goiug for three hours. How does the gas consumed compare with the gas consumed through the gas manager’s street lamp meter ? If the Council wish to sell those twenty five gas stoves which they have imported this information should have been published before now. Before concluding I would like to say I am pleased to see that the gas is now carried into the residence of the headmaster of the public school through an iron pipe. Had oue of the school boys cut the indiarubber pipe through which the gas has been passing for several months, the result would have been an empty gasometer aud no light! Now Mr Editor, if these few remarks iuduces eveu one of the ratepayers to take more interest in municipal business your publishing them will do no harm. —I am, etc., Warstkc. [Council meetings are open to the public if our reports don’t satisfy,—Ed. |