WIDENING PRINCES STREET.

Evening Star, Issue 3810, 11 May 1875, Page 3

WIDENING PRINCES STREET.

To the Editor. Sra.-In connection with the award of the a ° u to_. Princes street arbitrators, I would suggest that a meeting of the taxpayers: be caued at once to consider the matter, and that further proceedings should cease in the mean•ej until a healthy and vigorous public opinion has tested this important question.—l am, ®c., 1 Dunedin, May 11. Ratepayer.

■ .To the Editor. M «, ra, T^°w d ,® 0E ? 6 . 0f your numerous correspondents kindly inform me whether the proposed widening of Princes street will cost any thing hke the sum of L 40.000, and, if so whether the City can afford to pay for so : expensive a luxury ? Mr Fish, I think, asserted that it would only cost L 14,000, and gave us as a reason for its immediate completion that it would be cheaper now than two and a-halt years hence, quite ignoring the idea that if it were to cost so vast a sum it should not bo a t a i ■* wish to make a remark au to the coolness of &person jlemanding L 6,000

odd and accepting L 3,700; but I would stale who is supposed to reap the benefit of all this ? It seems to me devisee! for the especial benefit of those fortunate gentlemen who have long leases; for I do not believe that tbs Dunedin public will care to pay L 2,000 a year extra in taxation, the benefit to be derived being_ of such a trivial nature to those not living in that part of the stefeet. Let a monster meeting at onee be held, if some influential gentlemen would stop forward for the purpose of ascertaining the real state of public feeling on the matter, and should it be found that they do not see it in the saine light as “ye good and ’true citizens” of Princes street southj no doubt these gentlemen will still further abate their claims, rather than that the people should be deprived of theinestimable boon of twenty feet or so additional space in that part of the street. Trusting that seme steps will be taken in'the matter—l am, &e. „ N. L. Octagon, May 10.