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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1021, 10 January 1882, Page 2

It is impossible to pass over in silence the moral to be deducted by the ratepayers of the district from the judgment delivered by His Worship, Capt. Preece, in the case of McDowall v. the Borough Council. The judicious disbursement of the ratepayers’ money, and the efficient administration of our local affairs are matters of paramount importance to the healthy progress of the community. So long as an apathetic feeling is permitted to exist by those, who, from the public position they occupy, should be the conservators of the people's interests, nothing

need be looked forward to but an indiscriminate waste of our local revenue. There is a high trust placed in the hands of those persons, who, by the voice of the people, are elected to the position of Councillors in the Borough and the County. Unless they watch with a, jealous eye the efficient execution of the public business they have taken in hand ; if they violate in any way the confidence reposed in them, the present system of local government here, instead of being a panacea for all the evils of provincia'ism, will become an unmitigated curse.