BOROUGH MATTERS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2526, 18 September 1888, Page 2

BOROUGH MATTERS.

TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Will you kindly allow mo a few words in reply to "Anti-gammon's" misstatements in your issue of the 13th inst., which will as far as I am concerned close the correspondence, as the object I had in writing has been to a large extent gained— viz., arousing ratepayers to take an active and intelligent interest in the late election for councillors. That this was done the number of votes polled last Thursday conclusively proves. The soft insinuation contained in the poetical quotation with which "A. U." prefaces his remarks does not apply, and I still challenge him to prove that his balance-sheet or statement (call it what you will, as it is not the name, but the accuracy of the thing I contend for) is correct. Had his statement been correct, why did ho not, as 1 asked him in my last, show the legal expenses under the head of expenditure '! He conveniently forgets to notice this. Why did he not under the same head show the amount paid for as Hospital and Chaiitable Aid contributions, and why did he try to make the burgesses believe, by showing on his balance-sheet under tho hoad of income, that the sum of £280 odd (rates accruing for the last, eleven years), was an available asset? This has all to be explained before we can receive his statement as truth. A.G., in bad taste, and to serve a purpose, imports into his correspondence the name of one of the candidates for election to the Council on the s ime day his letter appeared. This was an oh ctioneering dodge with a vengeance to hurt that gentleman's chances of success. How much notice, the burgesses took of his letter was shown by the large majoiity .Mr Jones obtained, going in at the h.*ad of the poll. A.G. states that myself, in connection willi auotla r member " tho council, voted for the payim-nt "f M'- O'D-ia's claim of £105 This is a deliberate falsehood, and to te-t- ihe bona tides of Mr A. G's. stitement, 1 will be. wiili ig t > |> «y to the. Hospital or Charitable Aid Board, the sum ol twenty pounds on his proving ittrtie, on condition tiuit should he fail to do so, he will forfeit a similar sum ; this challenge remains open for a week. A. G. failed to see. tho irony conveyed in the amendment for a third bath. If he will search the minute book referring to this, he will find an amendment on the original motion to have two baths, to be reduced to one, which was supported by Councillor Jones and myself, but lost on a division, and failing this, in ail ironical tone, and out of a spirit of ridicule, a second amendment to have three b iths was proposed by us. A. G. has taxed me with abuse, let those who read my letter judge if this is so, unless he applies that little allegory le the Boa Constrictor in this spirit. Thanking you for inserting former letters which evidently, have done good,—l am, yours etc., A. Scott.