WAITOA ELECTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 388, 27 July 1889, Page 2

WAITOA ELECTION.

THE EDITOR. J Sin, — I notice fi number of now candidate* have been nominated for the forthcoming Waitoa Pioad Board election. Surety they do not nil expect to get in ; and some of tho candidates I think cannot give m any special reason why we should vote for them ; or erivp im any reasonable irn i run teethat we should get better t) enter] on thewhole if tl»ev were in power, than wo would he by sticking to the present Board - hut there miaht he more little jobs and log rolling carried on than there has beon in the past. We are b tter off with capable and independent men in power than we should be if squabbling with one> another about this by— road and that drain to my place, and so on. Mr Ahhey, I believe, would prove a useful member on' the Board ; but what claim Mr Murphy has to expect the electors to vote for him I fail to see. He is most of his time living many miles away from the district ; and' an absentee member we do not want. I do not think either that he has been such w trreat success as a member for To Aroha on the Piako County Council that we need covet him to represent us in Waitoa. Some of us do not forget the ' punt and? nephew ' business, not so very long asro, in connection with the County Council,, and how that piece of business was showed up in its true colouis. Perhaps now th& punt is nearly done with, the nephew or some of tiie sons, who like contracting, and would like Mr Murphy to be on the Waitoa Road Board. If it is going; to be a log rolling election, however, there are other of the candidates I think who have stionger claims on the Waitoa ratepayers, and who would be likely to prove more generallyuseful, and have quite as good a right to do a little log rolling on their own account. I think Mr Banmer has made a very fair member myself, and I shall vote for hint again and one of the new candidates, but certainly not for all the new candidates who have put up for the election. — E am, etc., Old Settler. Te Aroha West, July 24th, 1889.