CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2845, 12 February 1925, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

- (To The Editor). Sir, —Tn' your issue of Tuesday last I read with some amusement the second act, staged by the Alayor and supporters in the Municipal comedy now shortly (o come to a well merited cad, marked only by the. litter f'iiihire of the Alayor and his supporters to fulfil the promises •riven lasi election, and now. with Ihe dissatisfaction of the voters so apparciil, a forward policy is being adopted in order to my mind, to againgnll ihc electors. It is really amiising to read how a panic has i nine about and more amusing still to read how some of those Councillors who adopted such a volt face in their opposition to the tactics of the Alayor, remembering that they signed tlic requisition that the Mayor asked for previous-to last election, which act practically sold their political soup. .1 well remember that. when a member of the Council, I faced the same opposition from both Crs. Ross and Smith in regard to exactly the same objects, that they at lasi Council meeting encountered. Peculiar indeed, how some get so progressive on the eve of elections. I have in mind more than one loan proposal which I brought forward, that met its death at the hands of these same Councillors, some of whom now see the light. In a previous issue T characterised the Mayor’s dud manifesto as a blank cheque. That 1 was right is shown by the opposition he met with in his attempt to cash i( now that his political account is closed. Let mo for a brief space, take the electors’ mind hack to the eve of last election. How those Councillors supported the Mayor in his reading of u piece of local political fiction. How nobly they supported him that night and how last Monday night, they grappled for straws to save themselves from drowning in the ‘Policy’ baths. To think that it has taken two \ears for those Councillors to get: wise to the tactics of the Mayor is a poor augury for the future. One needs to be awake “all” the time, too, or they will get left to shift for themselves, as is the “ease at present. Am 1 right when I say that his Worship opposed the Park site three years ago, and now is in favour of it 1 What’s the motive of this move, and was it the fact that the “minor thing” being put forward by the Mayor caused, those Councillors v. ho opposed him to grasp the library and rest room as a straw to save themselves after being so nealiv dumped overboard by the Mayor in an attempt to save himself from I lie wrath to come so to speak.’ I’ve a feeling that mailers and candidates will he publicly discussed Inter on, and perhaps the i lectors will not be gulled so easily again. E. G. A TAR TIN.