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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2272, 5 November 1889, Page 3

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g|PF!?«aroi *TO TUB BItfTOE. Sir,—l shall feel obliged If you wll afford me space to ask the Hampsteac Town Board to pause before committing the ratepayers to the expenditure of pur chasing tbe roads of the village. As sv j._, „v. »hft pnrobußß . ■•" :> .^r |.:;,» '. V-liX-]j7 V"! t'~(\ 7"'--. ':•-; ■-'- Vvnn iq ihrjiva tin-■■•t*. vv iso v ■ ti-.v loae his ,'oadvr ay, whilet '.!»!•.:■ o{ mar-.:- ic/iu Date owners rejldii g o. the muia Btr«ei> i; preiepved? The conJa»lon is obvious No one will submit to suoh a posltloni therefore the only oourae open to th< Board li to pueohase none, more especially m there (i really no occasion to purchase, Let the ratepayers consider that i threat was held oat that if a decision vat not Immediately come to, tho roadß would be sold over the heads of the people, s few days given just to show that there was no animosity m the matter, and tbe valiant Hector holding over the execution of his threat for a couple of months, still aotnated by love for the Board to allow them time to appeal for advice to the law, and all this time a man was supposed to be standing metaphorically at the end of the street with the money m hie hand ready to buy and give more money too. I say it is only sufficient to draw attention to such a poult ion to demonstrate Us falsity, tho thing is pore bounce. Has the now historic Town Board never heard tb!« piper before? and danced to him too 1 What, never 11 This time they only hear the pipe ; afore time they taw tbe piper, I would urge the ratepayers to insist upon delay, co that an enquiry can be made into the merits of the case* Up to tbe present no publio mention baa been made of the case and tberatepayers are entitled to have it brought to day light, not that I think the Town Board nave tried to keep the matter quiet, but there tbe fact Is that a question of great pnblio Importance is In a tair way of being settled without a word getting to the pnblfo ear.—l am, etc. Bampstead Ratepaikb,