SPIDER AND FLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 225, 14 October 1940, Page 4

SPIDER AND FLY

Sir,—- '.'Come into my parlour, said the spid-jr to the fly,** sedms to be the text of.the Whakatane'. County Chairman, when lie tells - - the • ratepayers that his Council' / wishes to get a legal right, without ■ 1 a poll of ratepayers, to pledge their ■ farms for a further loan of £50,000. • but would not collect special rate.. He could not his Council was in the ing special rates and not rallecting them. * In this regard it is interesting tonote that years back, when the ' County Chairman was a farmer at ..... Nukuhou, he agreed that the rates were already 100 high, but when .he got a seat in the Council, he voted " for increase of 33 per cent in the general rate. Now he is working hard for another increase of over

three-farthings in the £. At the meetings of ratepayers, reported in the , BEACON, there was poor, support for the Council's proposal. * . 'In. the defence of our Nukuhou latepayers, I would like to.say. that although the County Chairman was: : ; elected in this riding, he does not; represent their wishes in regard to the proposed new. loan and other, matters; He was elected, like other councillors, to look after roads and bridges and not for big building 5 schemes which were not then thought of. If the present councillors persist ' in going against or ignoring the ratepayers interests, it will be. necessary to ask them to resign anct give place to 'men who are loyabto the farmers. - ' Just here it is fitting to record the'appreciation the ratepayers have for Councillor Clyde McCready \vho : ■ v • ■ has stood out manfully against further confiscation of the farmers* equity in their farms and homes., Yours etc., \ - NUKUHOU RATEPAYER"!