To the Editor of the Norta-Cara. Dairy News, Sme,—T should like, if you will me, to strongly protest against the attitude the Council adopted towards the.amond-ment I -brought forward "ut yesterdisy's Ratepayers': Meeting:
I take it that the Council {s to a meeting of Ratepayers what:.the. Government: ty to Parliament. Now: Parliament, when it "'wants to know," demands commissions of enquiry on all sorts of subjects, but the Government never for xn instant considers. that these demands are in: any sense votes of censure nor—t tell the truth—can I believe that had the amendment. been carried yesterday our Council—whose sterling qualities we all -appreciste—would have, on reflection, allowed itself to drift into any such petulantly undignified position.
Our Cuncillors are busy men and there Isan imniense amount of current: Municipinl work to be got through which, necentuated as it is by the recent increase of the Settlement, may fairly be said to over-burden them already, and it would' manifestly' he unfair to ask them to undertake,!in sil.' dition, 80 minute und detailed an. enquiry an ig nec-ssaty if the question of the Electric Light. is ever: to. be put clearly befire the Public.
to the necessity for such an enquiry, opinions may differ, but there' is clearly a substantial minority of Ratepayers who think with: me that, wher its friends can say of a Municipal. might be-worse,*
are categorically gore through and public! {o arseasared terme Grd tee. i nocpuinta stated ¢o be ave up n't aislending vay the Manicipal Council owes it both to itself and to those who elected it to see that 8 full and impartial examination of all the facts of the case are made and published.
In'any casa the report: of such: s Commission as I: asked for: would bs' moat valaable as a guidw.if,.as the Chairnian of the Council stated, it may.bo désirabln by-and-bye to grant the Electric: Lightins monopoly to a Company undertaking Elec-trio Trams.
However, all that is apart from the anam int.. The main point is this, thint if our councillors are going to meet the leviti desire of the Ratepayers for inform any subject by. saying an, we tall you -sliall: resign," then they (municipal Government to a indeed must—ouly: bring Tam, eto., ist Juno, To the Editor of the
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