MR CORBETT'S PROPOSALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 865, 5 September 1881, Page 2

MR CORBETT'S PROPOSALS.

To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily. Sir, —I read Mr J. H. Corbett's address to the electors ii) today's issije with very great pleasure. It is a pity that there are not a few more seats vacant in the Councjl and men of his stamp and go-a-liead ideas to fill them. They would soon lift Masterton out of the Slough of Despond in wliiqh it ljas )jeen Wfijjpwmg tljjs ppt two years. ' '

Of course the Teetotal bigots will raise the usual hue and cry against the man because he is a publician, but I dont think that the electors have muoh to congratulate themselves for In the past elections for that august body. One of them absolutely on the block vote of teetotalers some three or four years back took advantage during his term of office to get a fine metalled road down to his own door, a road that is scarcely used by anyone but himself, while the main road of the township that everybody uses is left in a disgraceful condition, and *econtly another shining light has taken the opportunity of getting splendit] roads and footpaths made in every Btreet where he holds property, and I hope the electors will bear this in mind when they are filling up their eleotion papers, and not be lead away to vote for a man because he does not choose to drlnlc a glass of beer. _ I hope and trust to seo all the new candidates, for Municipal honors elected, for the simple reason that any change must be for the better, and there will be.:a better chance for workmen to he able to depend :Oi) getting permanent employment in the place and settle down in it instead of packing off to Sydney in shoals, the way they have been doing lately, Yours &c., Mechanic. Masterton, September 3,1881,