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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 12

* Jeroboam. fDarid.

received from many friends and supporters, to allow myself to be placed in nomination. It is now three years since you did me the honour of electing me as one of your Councillors for High Ward ; and if I uiay judge from from the support promised me at the ensuing contest for the Mayoralty, my services as a Councillor have in some measure merited the ! confidence of the electors. My highest ambition in being placed in the proud position of Mayor of the City will be, as I trust it has always been, to study the welfare of my fellow-townsmen, and if it should be my lot to attain to the Civic Chair, I shall have the grateful reminiscence that I have been placed Chief Magistrate over a spot of ground which many years ago was to me well known as little better than a desolate waste. I think my views on Municipal matters while in the Council are so thoroughly conversant to the Electors generally that it will be unnecessary to hold any public meetings. Suffice it to say that I have, as consistently as lay in my power, tried to carty out a prudent system of retrenchment and economy ia matters affecting the interests of the City, at the same timo with a liberality of put-pose where it was essential for the public good.