CITY EXPENDITURE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 6

CITY EXPENDITURE

(To the Editor.) Sir, —It is very refreshing to hears'the complaint of the Ratepayers' Association about the extravagance of the City Council and staff, but 1 doubt very much if the association, the city councillors, or the Mayor ar<j aware of the waste that is going on. I will give one case as an example. In the village of Northland thdro is a blind road called Harbour View Road. Three years ago someone got the idea to Widen this road. Why, is a mystery to everyone in the village. Gangs of men were started, and to; my knowledge are still working. There are no more people living in this street than there were twenty years ago, nor are there likely to be for the next hundred years, because there arc no more vacant sections. So why waste the ratepayers' money, on a blind street? The.money could be put to better use reconditioning the footpaths in the principal streets of the city, where the council is still pursuing the old style, of putting down concrete blocks instead of taking up all the, broken blocks, which I means all the footpaths in the city, and at, least making the footpaths as easy to walk on as the roads. I hope the Ratepayers' Association will fight strenuously ■ to have a general manager for the Capital City and abolish the obsolete system of Mayor and councillors.—l am, etc., A HARD-HIT RATEPAYER.