HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1271, 21 August 1880, Page 3

HAMILTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

TO TiIE EDITOR.

Sir, — Now that the election for three new Councillors is coming oft, the attention of ratepayers is naturally drawn to municipal matters, and a sad spectacls those matters are, too, when oue comes to look into them. Somo time since, when the "noble" four so "ignobly ' deserted their posts, the then Council talked of nothing but what a mess they (th 3 fou>-) had left things in, how retrenchment was to be the order of the day, and the Borough was to be soon out of debt : in fact most of them talked and dreamed of nothing but finance. The result of their labors we now have very distinctly before us in the shape of a £1200 debt, wich assets tome where about £<300 for the ensuing year, oub of wliieh inu<tt be de lucted salaries, and other office charges. The look-out is truly blight, is it not ? Many of us who pay rates "want to know, you know," to what good the money expended has been put. Has it been spent for the benefit of the Borough and ratepayers generally, or has a great deal of it not been spent for the good of a few ratepayers only, most of them members of the Council ? I think the sooner we go back to our old Town Board system the better. If a chairman or meinbei in those clays did occasionally make his own road, yet there were only sof them to satisfy. Now we have 10, and if the 3 new councillors should be anything like some of the present lot, goodness knows how many more yards \r e shall have to fill, or roads or foot-paths to make up to private houses, while the approaches to the township are a disgrace to a village of the age of Hamilton. Look at our river banks too. It is very evident that no councillor lias property abutting on a bad portion of them, or else we would have had some action taken long since. Whatever is done, some one should be put in the Council who can talk as much as Vialou, or we shall have the same thing over again, as he can talk the whole lot dowu while the Mayor looks quietly on, quite unable to keep order, Vialou, the meantime, refusing point blank to take his rulings. I say let us wipe out the Council, and retire into a modest Road Board once more. We shall have less expenses, more money, and fen er little swindles worked. — Yours, &C.j Anti-Humbug.