CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 591, 1 December 1871, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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To the Editor of the Evening Stab.

Sift,— In the report of the City Council it is stated that Mr. George moved, " That the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health be asked as to the effect of asphalte pavement on the 'health of pedestrians in hot weather." 'jThat such a motion should be treated as a joke by the Council when he was iv good earnest about the motion, and fully impressed with its necessity and importance,, is saying very-little for the Council or Mr. George, especially as it was a part and parcel of Mr. George's notions: and motions on the subject of compelling private individuals in a few streets to pave the public streets at their own «. perise, and not by the same method all and every other public works are done, viz., by a rate on the annual value.

I would ask how they (the Council) did not see the Bmall joke perpetrated by such a scheme on the holders of property at the top of _hortland, Wyndham, and Victoria-streets, most of whom will have to pay about four times as much for the same quantity of paving, when reckoned on the annual value of the property, as Mr. George will have to pay for his, in Shortland-streef, to say nothing of his other property, &c. All this may be jokes and fun to the boys, but to the frogs, —there is the rub. —I am, &c,

A Feog.