A HUMOROUS RATEPAYER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 87, 15 April 1915, Page 3

A HUMOROUS RATEPAYER.

[To The Editor Stratford Post.] Sir, —Your correspondent, "Out-foi Progress," must surely be a humour isfc when he advocates the candidatu. of Mr Kirk wood for the May o rait; But for Mr Kirkwoou's—l will c. it by the mild name of firmness, ot'i ers might call it obstinacy—the cka ces are that the loan proposals of t • years ago would have been carried, a i Stratford would have been booming 1., this time. Your correspondent mc estly refrains from pointing out wh . Mr Kirkwood has done. Well, * course, he points with pride to IV channelling and consequent spoiling ti the Broadway footpaths. He mig I have pointed to the stupidity of alio ing an unsupported wall \ remaini after the fire and the consequent damage to the Bank of New Zealand p: mises, that landed the Borough in \ fair sum for damages. He might ha', mentioned that—oh, well, there are dozen things he might have mentic ed to prove Mr Kirkwood's efficient-. The man we want as Mayor is a ni • of ability and even-mindedness. AV must have a loan for a fairly so' : sum ,if Stratford is uot to be ou stripped by her rivals—a loan spd l evenly all over the Borough. BoM; Mr Kirkwood and Mr Boon hav shown in the past that they cam: j' rise to this conception of a Mayo."' duty, hence neither of them deserv ■ the confidence of the ratepayers! W'! : no one of our abler citizens offer I.' services?—l am, etc., HENRY WILSON.