MAYORALTY ELECTIONS.
The Mayoralty elections will soon be ■with usj and**he;burgesses will 1 . be called upon,, :-i many cases, to chose their chief magistrate from Candida tea Yiino have not "served a day on a Borough Council. The system under which Mayors are elected in New Zealand is wrong. In other parts of the British Empire they do tilings differently. -In Victoria, for instance, tlie Mayor is elected frojn the Borough Council. This seems to. be a uracil more'rational system than our own, for it induces a better clasfc of an on to offer themselves as Councillors, and secures the services of a Mayor who has experience in local body work and who has, generally speaking, the support of liiis Council.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10522, 10 January 1912, Page 4
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121MAYORALTY ELECTIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10522, 10 January 1912, Page 4
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