RIP VAN WINKLE II.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 107, 12 February 1901, Page 2

RIP VAN WINKLE 11.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Was it not intensely amusing to read the letter in your last issue from Mr John Cameron, in which he

avows that be has been fighting for the rights and liberties of the people. When were those liberties infringed, may I

ask ? Really it is time this miserable farce was played out. With their pettifogging, spiteful quarrelling Mr Cameron’s party have given such a bad tone to the Council that few in Wai-

mate would stand for election unless actuated by other motives than the protection of the rights and liberties of the

ratepayers. How strange that these were never found before. And is it not the rights of the ratepayers to have

decent streets? Look at Parsonage Road in which Mr Cameron had a large finger. Is it not the right of the ratepayers to have their business transacted properly instead of being, hurried through in order that a “fight” may be started? Is it not the right of the ratepayers to be assured that when a gentleman is engaged to fill a position in their office that he shall be secure from insult by any upstart -who may have “gab” enough to get elected to the Council? Verily, the ratepayers have many lights, but until votes are wanted there is little heard of them. If ever there is to be peace in Waimate Borough, there is need of a radical change, and that is to clear out Mr Cameron and the obstructionist parcy to which ho belongs. A man whose voice is heard but once in twenty years, and then only to say he did not know what he was doing, may well be consigned to private life, away from the dazzling light that beats upon borough councillors and kings.—l am. etc., Mugwump.