Correspondence.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1141, 18 October 1879, Page 2

Correspondence.

♦— ; (Our .'correspondence columns are iinflartially open to all, Out tue do not in any way identify ourselves with opinions expressed ihcrcvn). SiR.-rPermit ine, through the medium of your journal, to mtimato to the Burgesses of this Borough, that .1. an . constrained (by the recent actions of majorities of v.ouhcillors, at late meetings of the Cpunoil) tp'place, again, in their, hands, the trust as, a Councillor they reposed in me siucc this corporation was granted. If theaetipn of the majority of Councillorhad been in., accordance with, the practice of , corporate bodies, \ I would cheerfully submit,' but, for instance, where I see a document coined in: the Council Chamber:' ,and ordered to, be placed upon tho minuteof our proceedings, a meeting of a portion of the Works < 'ommitl-.ee, convened at the instance of an Engineer (as is reported to me) without the authority of the Council, a document emanating fr.om ' them, affecting contracts hi progress, find for which the ounoil are litible, is ordered to be received, while we, having an Engineer responsible for. the conduct of such works, and who is supposed to report fortnightly thereon. By. adverse voting, a majority dispenses with the 'JFinfiuce aud Bye-Law -Committees; In consequeuco, the usual payments, are postponed, leav the Chairman to call a special mcetimr, to create anew that which was destroyed. Responsibility, in respect to public works, is attempted to bo shifted; ■'• If groat care is not exercised, the Borough will b> made the butt. My protests are already: entered in the records of th'3 Council, and ; I certainly confess, if the : systera- is continued, to serious misgivings as to the future. In place of acting as roaporsible i agents, motions • are - submitted to the. Council, respecting- the libortyofih'c Bur-. 1 ff esses, and when subjects are .under dis- >, • cussion,tho" greatest confusion ensues, by (vOimcillors ; not ; understanding the rules i .. by • which they are governed, either in j ! debate or the power with which they are auvested. The fact. will force itself upon Hamilton, as ib has done upon -Auckland, that,-. the. most, liberal and enightend of ■Her 'uiirgesseVwill have to i-it' in 'that , Council .hamberj au:l sway itsjdastinies. "—I ami, &c.,' Albert Potter. : .;