TUAKAU'S EXPERIENCES

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 440, 10 January 1919, Page 2

TUAKAU'S EXPERIENCES

♦ With the Tuakau Town Board now once more at full strength, three members to fill vacancies cansed by resignations having on a poll been elected last Wednesday, it is to be hoped that a return will be made to the active and forward policy that characterised lhe Board's administration prior to the biennial election last September. Apparently in September the majority of the electors formed the opinion that the retiring Board had outlived its usefulness and although works were under way in the expenditure of the authorised £12,000 loan practicaJly a new Board assumed office, the advice contained in the old adage of not swopping horses when crossing a stream failing to be heeded by the electors. A subsequent by-election resulted in a similar way and then the Board's troubles began. Deprived of the old " skipper," Mr Dynes Fulton, the Board's craft passed into stormy seas and encountered boisterous gales. The inevitable shipwreck followed and with one death occurring other three passengers forsook the doomed vessel. Now that the old ship has been re-manned and the iormer Captain has been appointed to take command it can confidently be anticipated that with Mr Fulton again guiding Tuakau's destinies "full speed ahead '' will be the principle on which the Board will act.