COLLINS versus GIBBS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 32, 7 February 1871, Page 2

COLLINS versus GIBBS.

To rnß Editor of tue Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — In these days of electiqneering, we hear a great deal about billet hunting, candidates seeking to bo elected in order that they may reap pecuuiary advantages, and so on, and consequently when a man shows most clearly by his acts that he does not enter the field of politics simply to benefit his pocket, but rather in the hope of proving useful to his fellowcolonists, I think that his conduct should not be lost sight of, and therefore wpuld call to the minds of the electors of Gulden Bay that after the last session of the Provincial Council, Mr. Collins, in the most unostentatious mauner, handed over the whole of his honorarium, amounting to £25, to our local charities. What a contrast such conduct affords to that of his present opponent Mr. Gibbs, who, while he is economically mad on the salaries of Government officials, took the greatest care to be absent from the Council when the vote for increasing the pay of members was brought forward. My advice to the electors of Golden Bay is that they should judge their candidates by their actions, and not by their specious promise?, or miserable haggling over a few pounds more or less to be paid to Government officers. I am, &c, Honesty.