STRATFORD DIVIDING LOANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 61, 14 March 1913, Page 3

STRATFORD DIVIDING LOANS.

(To the Editor Stratford Post.)

Sir, —As a citizen of Stratford I feel pleased that the casting vote of our Mayor re dividing the cpining loans into four parts is good British law, although, by the way, it is 3ausing a great division and needless jealous feeling. Msny are of the ‘'opinion that we should vote all loan or no loan. But, sir, beside the question, many will remember that the casting vote of a partisan gave the Dominion a three months’ Premier and when six more wobbled wo made our present Premier! Still British law. I only wish to show, sir, that some of our New Zealand enactments are not run on that British fair-play system, for both premiers owed their positions, to very narrow majorities, and yet neither had the backbone to try and remove such minority-made law. Until New Zealand people, jed and backed by their premier, demn id and remove those unjust enactments, the law may lie New Zealand; not British, but brutish. lam pleased that I took no part in the election of that southerner who had to be challenged to record his vote for or against Councillor Morison’s motion rescinding the dividing of the loans, which would have caused our Mayor for the second time to record his casting vote, —I am, etc., W. E PORTER.