Dear Sir,

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 70, 6 May 1946, Page 4

Dear Sir,

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CATCHMENT BOARD RATES Sir, —The fears in the report of our County Council in connection, with the Catchment Control Board and our Catchment area are well founded. It is well to see our Council supporting the Counties Association in its endeavours. If all Counties were to use their Members of Parliament “collectively,” there would be quick results in the reduction of taxation. Councillor Hunter’s remarks should be taken as a warning! We have already had one “Catchment” put across our County in the form of hospital rates. I agree with Cr Hunter, this is also a case for nationalisation! and should not be another peg in the coffin of Farmer Jdhn. So like the Old Lady and her Pig, Farmer John must light the fire, to burn the stick, to beat the pig, and the Old Lady will get home with it. It is action not words that counts! What about ratepayers holding meetings in their respective ridings to support their Member? This would give our County Councillors the pressure to carry out the wishes of their constituants! Having asked the Control Council to form a Catchment Board in the Bay of Plenty, should not necessarily mean that the representatives of the ratepayers should abide by its (the Control Council’s) decision. Yours etc., RATEPAYER.

MR NASH’S BUDGET Sir, —There is many a true word spoken in jest. When Mr Nash stated that his next Budget would win the coming election he may not have been trying to be humorous. It is difficult to believe that we have in New Zealand reached a standard of political morality where the finances of the country are regulated by those in power not according to the economic needs of the community but purely for the winning of votes. We have already seen our Maori Race demoralised and degraded in the same methods and it is obvious to any thinking person that sooner or later the same evil thing will be extended to other sections of the community.-' ' Yours etc., JOHN CITIZEN.