DISTRICT NEWS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 564, 7 September 1920, Page 2

DISTRICT NEWS.

TUAKAU.

TOWN BOARD ELECTIONS,

(By Progress.) «4j Nominations for membership-on the next Tuakau Town Hoard must be with the clerk by 12 nO'«n to-morYow. This being so, it is to lie hoped that the ratepayers have beat giving the matter their active attention, and have taken steps to nominate a set of men of proven business capacity and knowledge of local body work and procedure. These factors'are the ' ones which count, and not the petty personal likes and dislikes which so • often tend lo obscure the real is - sues. Tuakau is now at what is really the turning point in its history. Hap- { pily, it has been well served, for the most part, by its town .board, and one may go far before finding another town of similar size which has so recently become a town board district, and which has as much tri~ show for the expenditure of the ra pajers' money. Its streets, although * in an incomplete state yet, compare very favourably with most other town board districts in the Dominion, and are better than many of long 7 standing.

While net wishing to make odious comparisons,, one is, nevertheless, forced to the conclusion that the head of the present board is entitled to a good deal of credit for the town's present position, the financial aspect of which was clearly brought out, in a recent editorial in the "Times," which showed that the administration had been on a nigh level of efficiency.

MEMORIAL HALL LOAN PROPOSAL On the same day as the elections (September 15) a poll of the ratepayers will be taken on a "proposal to borrow a sum of £7OOO for the pur?ost of building a Tuakau Memorial own Hall. If carried, and the hall built, it will not only be a memorial to the dead, and contain club rooms for the convenience jf living ex-sol-diers and young men, but should also pay its way and ultimately show a profit. Revenue from' shops in the front of the building, from pictures, from local entertainments and travelling companies will aggregate to a good round sum annually. It will also contain town board chambers, which are sadly needed in TUakau. There is opposition to the loan, but when analysed this is found to con- | sist mainly of personal animus; the mosquito and the wasp continue to bite and sting the thoroughbred. Happily, there is every reason to believe that the ratepayers can see further than their noses; and are not going to permit the future of Tuakau to be jeopardised and their own property interests damaged by taking heed of an opposition that rests on no broader or deeper foundation than a desire to avenge justly-deserv-ed punishment meted out in the past. For their own sakes, and in the interests of civic advancement and clean, vigorous local politics, the ratepayers will doubtless carry the loan easily, and also put in power men of business and commercial experience, judging candidates by their personal records, and not by some hostile section's "say-so." Nature does not permit an individual, a community, or a nation to stand still—thecp must be movement, iitfier forwards or backwards; the moral of this is that if the ratepayers want Tuatau to progress they must «£lect progressive men as their liftnagement, or town board.