LOAN POLL TOMORRW

Chronicle (Levin), 22 October 1946, Page 4

LOAN POLL TOMORRW

Mayor Asks For Support oi Ratepayers ■ "With referenee* to the pbll to*,mQi;row for the loan proposals, I am rather ahai'd that the Press report of the ratepayers' m'eeting "held1 last Thursday ivoufd* gWe the ampression that the proposals that were placed before the meeting, and which wili be voted' on tbmofrow, were 'du Diously' received by the rather small number of ratepayers who- atfended the meeting/' ^aid the Maycr (Mr. H.- B. Burae,kfn)) at last t Vening's meeting of che Levin Borough Council. "From my impressi'on of What fcook place at the meeting there was very little criti-cism directed- at che proposals themselvesv and indeed there could not be if the interests of the borougn as a whoie were the guidmg motive actuating those concerned, and the whofe objection seemed to be that these proposals -were bemg put befor'e ratepayers befere the main drain-

age proposal. These proposals are merely routine matters which have So be done- an«yw&y, pUrtiC'UTarly as far as tlie gas- anft water proposals are concerned and quite a lot of the footpath and street, and Machinery, too. "The cost of the drainage for the inner area only will be anything up to £80,000, the annual loan and . maintenance charges on ' which would be 3.3d in the- £. In addition the cost of connecfing up- eaCh properfy will be quite considerable. "The loan proposals are not in the nature of new work, such as thc drainage, and would make very little difi arence in the rates, more particularly as in the ioan proposals the cost would'^be spread over from 25 to 30 years, and If done in the next year or two, as uhey must be, shen the rates will have to carry the full amount in the years in* which the work is done. I hope, therefore, that the ratepayers will endorse the proposals tomorrow and have eonfidenee in their council, who have gone very fully into the whole position and accept their assurance that it is in the best interests of the borough as a whole that these proposals 'should be approved."