KIHIKIHI TOWN BOARD ELECTION

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 16 September 1884, Page 3

KIHIKIHI TOWN BOARD ELECTION

to thk rjniroii. SiH, T Mr J. \V. Ellis has again " rushed into pi int." Evidently that gentleman, and the few who aic allied with him, are most anxious to obtain office, and tluisdepnve Mr Forbes Goidon of hi 1? billet of collector, which he hah so well and .so faithfully filled for some time pant. Hence Mr Ellis nj.irvellous iii«imiation<*, which ho well knows to be false. One word as to Mr Ellis claim to veracity. He writes : "Mr Cooper's name in signed about the middle of the requisition." That specious document is now befoie mo, and Mr Cooper's name appears at the top of the second column of signatures, and on a level with that of the great Mr Ellis himself, Now, as for the ratepayers who signed the requisition re the accounts (that requisition which Mr Ellis has a weakness for biagging about), out of .something like 120 ratepayers at present on the rate roll, only 14 could be got to sign, and this after holding meetings night after night at the hotel recently to lay the ghost. Of this number five are candidates for election, and the bixth is, if all goes well, to be the new clerk, thus reducing the number of signatures said to be disinterested in the candidature to eight, and these, in the plenitude of their wisdom, have had the impertinenoe to assume to themselves the right, be it remembered, to dictate, in the name of the remaining 122 ratepayers, what the boaid must and should do. While Mr Ellis speaks of my " misleading production," he does not attempt to disprove any of my statements, His concluding paragraph was of such a length that it quite takes my breath away. In January last the ratepayers of Kihikihi rejected the " Grace-Ellis" party, and they did well, for they were then, as a highway board, in a muddlp, and something like £30 in debt, and the Kihikihi Town Board has, at this moment an overdraft indebtedness of only £C 18s 3d, and this after having passed through an exceptionally severe winter on strpet traffic, consequent on the Land Court, the purchase or drain pipes, and the cartage of gravel all the way from the Puniu River. I said the ratepayers rejected the'"Grace-Ellis" party, Possibly a similar fate awaits that combination of talent on Wednesday next.—l am, &c. Jamj?» Fahrelii. Kihikihi, Sept. 13,1884.

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