According to latest reports from Gisborne, the election for one of the two vacant seats in the Borough Council, which takes place to-day, is to be contested by Mr W. King, otherwise Wong King, described as the well-known Chinese market-gardener, a resident of seventeen years, and apparently a man of some means. We confess that we do not quite understand whether Wong Kings candidature has been promoted by some of his European friends in all seriousness, or whether no is the willing victim of a joke on somebodys part. We gather, however, from an interview between a representative of the Gisborne Times and Mr King that the latter is going to the poll, that ho does not think he will be elected, though a number of people have promised him their votes, and that he holds some strong opinions on local municipal management. Ho compressed his views on municipal matters into a few words:—Th© roads are no good. The water is no good. It is good for the garden, that is all. No good to drink. Last year, referring to his rates, I paid £7. This year it will be £21. Too much. Only £1 in China. It would be interesting to learn how Air Wong King proposed to reform the municipal administration of Gisborne. Certainly not by spending laborious nights and days in municipal affairs, for he assured his interviewer that he would never have become a candidate if he had known that he would have to attend Council meetings. No good to me! No good! No good! he cried. The Gisborne Council, one gathers, sits late at its business. How. asked Wong, could he possibly attend at the Council and be up in the mornings? Early to bed is the motto for the man who would circumvent the early bird and coax the early lettuce and the precocious -pea to profitable development. If, therefore, Wong King is elected to-day, he proposes to present the seat to the next highest candidate. That is a way out of tho difficulty which, we confess, would have never entered tho average European mind. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14147, 13 September 1911, Page 8
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