PUBLIC OPINION.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 190, 28 April 1914, Page 2

PUBLIC OPINION.

A COLUMN FOR THE PEOPLE

THE PUKEKOHE RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION AND "AN OPEN LEITER."

[TO THE EDITOR.] Sir,—l regret encroaching upon your valuable apace at this juncture, but owing: to my unafoidable absence on polling day and also during the time of the addresses by the two candidates for the Mayoralty, 1 feel impelled to express my views, aud request you to bear with me once again. Now, Sir, I have "no axe to grind" and have an experience of over 25 years of this district, and I never knew an organisation to represent the Ratepayers so secretly lorined and so unrepresentative; it appears to ire like the ashes of the Board and a few others who wish to degrade the Mayor and Council, and as such Association only numbers about thirty members out of over eight hundred electors both the Association ami the "Open Letter" can be judged thereby, and I consider the last statement referring to i Messrs Patterson and Hutley as the j only Councillors to safeguard the interests of the Ratepayers is a gratuitous insult to worthy Couni cillors euch as Messrs Hamilton, | Uilkey, Comrie, Pollock, etc. And | while 1 do not thick Mr Webster | compiled the "Open Letter," I am I surprised that he permitted his name to appear at the end of it. I expect the Mayor will reply to the other remarks contained therein j during his address on Tuesday ! night. I have still a lively recol- ' lection of affairs prior to the advent ! of.the liorough Council, and trust we I are not going to return to those ! dark days of procrastination, and I as the great majority of the Council work harmoniously with the present ; Mayor, I hopu the electors will not | condemn them to an inharmonious I charge.—l am, etc., ALBLRT E. WILKINSON. ' Ihe Woodland' 1 , l'ukek';h':.