COUNCIL COMMITTEES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10706, 29 August 1912, Page 4

COUNCIL COMMITTEES.

The Mastertou Borough Council will lie miking itself a laughing-stock if it passes resolutions at one meeting and ressincki thorn at the next. The setting up. of special committees to; control the Park and the gasworks was, we believe, in the best interests rf the town. It is an old saying that what is everybody's business ■is nobody's business. In the larger cities and townships special committees are set up to supervise special undertakings, and there is no reason why these committees should not do excellent worlj: in Mastertou. They would, at any rate, relieve the Mayor of a good deal of the responsibility which he at present, undertakes, and would economise time at the ordinary meetings of the Council! The fact that Cr. Flanagan does not take the interest in the Park as one of a committee of eleven that he would as one of a committee of five, expresses the position of the Council as n body. With due deference to the opinion expressed by His Worship the. Mayor, we are, convinced that t!v? time is not far distant/when the growing importance of the Borough will demand a return to the system of scction:il committees.