BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9548, 21 July 1909, Page 4

BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTION.

For the vacancy in the Borough Council there are two nominations, and the election to decide which of the two candidates, viz., Messrs Edwin Feist and W. Morris, shall be returned, will be held to-morrow. A by-election in connection with the Borough Council does not excite a great deal of interest, but, it is, notwithstanding, a matter of importance to the burgesses that the most suitable candidate should be returned. Mr Edwin Feist was Mayor of Masterton many years ago. and has been connected with public life in one position and another for a great many years. He is deservedly respected, and will, no doubt, poll well, although for a number or years past he has been a stranger to municipal affairs. Mr W. Morris, on the other hand, has been a most diligent, enthusiastic and faithful municipal Councillor, for some thirteen yecrs past, and only recently vacated his seat, through th? effluxion of tine, at the Council table, Mr Morris would, no doubt, have been a Councillor to-day save that when the last municipal elections took place he was laid aside by a serious illness, which, of course, entirely precluded him from doing any electioneering—a most necessary work at such a time. As we have indicated Mr Morris is in touch with municipal affairs; he takes a most keen interest in his duties a Councillor, a fact that he has given proof of again and again, an I he takes care to study carefully municipal problems from the working man's p >irit of view. Mr Morris is one of those in the community, who without hope of either fee or reward, hag toiled long and mdu ously fur the public weal. is again before the burgesses as a candidate for the Council, and none can deny his claim to fair support.