HARBOUR BOARDS ELECTION.
A return presented at the monthly meeting of the Wellington Harbour Board on Wednesday showed that the cost of the recent election was £IO6B 6s lid. This is the price the country has to pay for the maintemr anoe of -the principle it describes as "democratic." The result of" the elections did not prove that the electors were dissatisfied with the original conditions, nor did it make any important alteration in the personnel of the Board. The Government is welcome to all the kudos that attaches to an innovation which has proved a costly and cumbersome fiasco. Demos is a very extravagant gentleman at the very besjt- of times.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10275, 30 June 1911, Page 4
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112HARBOUR BOARDS ELECTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10275, 30 June 1911, Page 4
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