TOWN BOARD AND LIGHTING.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 23 May 1919, Page 3

TOWN BOARD AND LIGHTING.

(To the Editor.) - Sir.—l notice in your last issue that a deputation from various.organisations will wait on the Board relative to lighting facilities for the township. Quinright. too! AVhile some members of the Board are out for progress, others are there to sit tight and do nothing—except vote for stagnation. Perhaps at the.same meeting, 3>tr Editor, attention might be drawn to the fact that if Mr Field is allowed io take in hand the j matter of securing money for electric lighting purposes, ■ ho might succeed where the chairman has failed. Then again, provided Air Field cannot g-ftt the money for light, why not go in for a loan for water? Still, at the same, 'time, Sir, I’m not in favour of every tin-pot organisation rushing to the Town Board, crying out for all sorts of things. It' this is to be tolerated then we will have representatives of .the Loafers’ Brigade asking for seats, leaning posts, etc., to be erected at various points in the main street, while the Non-Workers’ Brigade will ask to have window sills widened so that they may sit down in comfort and criticise pas* ' sers-bv; the “Prohibited.-;” will ask for pipes to carry beer to their premises, the “Seldom Feds” will ask the Board -to reduce the cost of living, vliilc the ! “Tin-can Brigade” will urge that newlv-married couples be more liberal when “tin-canned,” and so on. However. Sir. it is admitted the town needs a stir up—not only the Town Board, but every other organisation. Have we any one body that is alive? No! Then why throw mud at the Town Board?—Tours, STIR ’EM UP.