CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1688, 20 March 1917, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To the Editor.]

Sir. —Seeing that’ it is almost impossible to get men to come forward as candidates for the mayoralty, how about asking the Ladies’ Patriotic Guild to take a hand in the mat ter? I feel certain, sir, judging by the excellent way in which they conduct their society and the good work they have accomplished, they could in the same spirit stir things up in the municipal dove, cot. . At least they could do as well as the Council is now doing. Did we not have, sir, a young lady conducting the affairs of the borough during the interval between the resignation of one Town Clerk and the appointing of a successor? Does any one think that women are not as capable in looking after borough affairs as men? Plenty of men owe their success in life to their “better halves,” and if we had a lady mayor and a sprinkling of the fair sex on the Council, (here would soon be a shaking-up of the dry hones. Why did not those present at the meeting (he other night make the suggestion that a woman should be asked to stand for the mayoralty instead of getting up petitions begging the present Mayor to remain in ollice. It appears to me that Foxton’s only hope of a forward move is to band over borough affairs to the women. In all seriousness I do believe that the borough would be greatly heuelif(ed by a change in the sexes of Mayor and Councillors. A drastic change is necessary to revive the town’s moribund state. —Yours, etc., WAIIINE.