CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11479, 12 January 1903, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

RICCARTON ROAD BOARD DISTRICT. TO THE EDITOB OF THE PHESS. Sir, —I wißii m <uuw iihe acttmuon of the abov-o ratepayt-re U» a petition that 1 am izuonn«<i AU , Jiii, wath. hxs ussuaj. piausibiiJty, is endeavouring to cbtaan signatures to, expressing tJne ia,ocj)*yta-s deaue to be jncorpuraitea into tho scutano of Gitater Ciir.sschurch.

If anyone at present paying, 6ay, £10 a year of'rates to t_e •Rio._r.on lload Board, desires to pay about £50 instead, and does not object to have his iibesty and piivL*ge_s interfered with in all sores of ways, tueui let him sign the petition. We have been weJ and economically served by the Riccarton Road Board in the past, amd as nearly the who.© OiLstrict is rural, and has no com_mi-_ty of interest with a city or borough population, it would be wiser and much moie to our interest to leave wel alone, and remain as we are, unless we wish to have a repetition of the unfortunate experience of the St. Albans ratepayers in the outlying district, who, I believe, have lately suooeed'ed an getting thamselve'S cut off from that district, and incorporated with the Avon Road Board district- —Yours, etc., A RICCARTON RATEPAYER.