THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1916 AN UNITED COUNCIL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 213, 29 September 1916, Page 2

THE Pukekohe and Waiuku Times PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1916 AN UNITED COUNCIL.

'We nothing extenuate, nor set doun auaht in malice

For the first time for many months peace and contentment prevail d at the assembly of tha Fukekohe Borough Council last Wednesday evening, even though the much vexed question uf an engineer to control the execution of the new water scheme came before the meeting for n definite decision thereon lue Council unanimously rt solved that since Mr D. W. McAtthur had no cfiicial lua elsewhere and had given an assurance that be could accordingly be in frequent attendance at Fukekohe to overlook tne wcrks in progreEs, supervision could saffly be entrusted to him and that no advantage would accrue by addhiur.nl expert advice being obtaied as askid for in the ratepayers' letition presented to the Council at the previous meeting. The charge of "broken pl.dges" will rossibly be

levelled at thosi membus ot tte Council who gave a promire an tr.e eve of the loan poll that if the loan weie tarried and the ratepayers signified by petition their desire for another engineering expert to be called in they would be a party to such course being adopted. Had Mr McArthur been still a wbole time official in tre employ of the Piako County Council the members concerned, we have every reason to believe, would have loyally ktpt their word and in tact such would have been demanded bv the section ot the Cuuncil who, although unplciged, had been most insistent on the view? as expressed in the petition ceing carrieJ out. With Mr McArthur once again in practice-as a Consulting Eo/maer and in a position to give full time to any duties he took up, circumstances entirely changed and es his qualifications to control were never in doubt the Council unitedly ratified his point. That the petition was passed over in this way should nut reflect discreditably on those who Kavs the promise referred to and we would certainly deprecate any accupations of breach of faith brought against them. The circumstances were peculiar and a change of front was without doubt

warranttd. "All's well that end's well" and it is to be hoped that Pukekobe's water troubles will soon be a thing of the past and that the remodelling of the town's water supply will be attended with the suceeas that it bo confidently predicted for it by its originator (Vlr W. Wyatt) and by Mr McArtbur.