THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8406, 22 April 1907, Page 5

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

(To the Editor.) , Sir,—l am more than pleased to find that some real interest is being taken in the coming Borough election, both in regard to the filling of the Mayoral chair and the members of Ihe Council. Your very clean-cut leader of present date should prove of some interest to those electors who havejneither the time to attention to the carrying out of municipal work. Therefore, I hope your leader will prove an educative guide to those referred to, and I trust in the main your prognostications will come out on the right side of the ledger. As to the two principal contestants, there can be no doubt, in the minds of the intelligent electors which of 'the two persons possesses the better qualifications without further comment on this point. The more difficult point to come at is the, placing of the Councillors. Two of those standing must stand out, but which two it is to be, is rather a ticklish matter to decide. However, I divide them into two contingents, Nos. 1 and 2. No 1. the old, and No. 2. the new. Those best known to us is No. 1, comprising Messrs Ewingtion, Temple. Pauling, Elliott and Morris, who are all men of business qualifications, and their return to office should be assured, especially Messrs Ewington, Pauling and Morris, who have so ungrudgingly given their service to the public, both in in and out of the Council; therefore such men merit the thanks and confidence of the As to the second contingent they are not so well known to us. For all I know, they may be all good and true men, and worthy of the position they aspire to. However, I place Mr Yarr head and shoulders in front of any of them, and as to the others there should be an interesting, ding-dong tug-of-war between them. That they are all men worthy of some support cannot be doubted. Any man who offers his time to the public free and gratuitously is worthy of support, more or less, according to his ability and fitness. I trust this contest will be carried out minus the bickering and personalities so usually indulged in on similar occasions.— am, etc., ' J. MACKAY. Masterton, April 20th, 1907.