To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Datty News."
Sir,—Is it really necessary for the Heads of Departments of the Municipality to be sent tripping over the world in quest of information that we might hope from the pay we give them they might be in possession of, and, that they would keep their information up to date in their own interests, as the rest of us do, in their leisure time.
I notice that there are two paragraphs in the last issue of the Municipal Gazette re the conductor of the Band.
1st—Appointment confirmed as from April 1.
2nd—Special leave from April 20.
I believe this special leave is to go to Italy to buy instruments for the Band. How much is this trip going to cost the rates? and how much have the trips of the Electricity Commissioner and the Public Works Commissioner cost? I think we shoul know these items.
Is it not time we began to curtail our Municipal expenditure and differentiate as you, sir, suggested in your leader on Municipal Expenditure between "what we could do with and what we could do without." When we vote in millions we are apt to think that a few thousands do not matter, but it is the constant initiation of these new sources of expenditure that are making us all uneasy and mounting the budgets up. Each new innovation should receive the keenest scrutiny from the public and should be promptly vetoed if it!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.