THE MUNICIPALITY ON THE FLAT.

Evening Star, Issue 3940, 11 October 1875, Page 3

THE MUNICIPALITY ON THE FLAT.

To the Editor. —Yon would ionf-r a favor on t v ou sands by explaining ike wo-kinga of the Municipal Corporation* Act and its benefits to lar,e ooramunitiea, a* you are aware the residents of the fiat have applied for a muni cipality. Since the application was loiget! ouposirion has sprung up and persons wh signed the first memorial were induced to sign agaius/ it through misrepresentation It ihard to say what ot ject the promoters of the counter petitions have in view in taking e 'Ep that i i opposite to their own interests 1? well as oth.-ra. -ome of those par ies havt ;on.) so ar as to stale that if a municipality wos cat ablishwd the rates will amount t< about saten shillings in toe pound instead oi .ne shilling as at present ; therefore, a ; milting that the rates are only some LBOO, the above calculation wouln bring it up to L 5.600 That would cer'ainly pay inte-eat on a very large loan. The above is only one of tht number of mi«statements that have been circuit ed, and which cause a good many tc f'-ar the very name of a municipality. Floods, or the want of drainage, would hj ive no such terrors for them, therefore they choose the latter as the least evil.—l am, &c., Nbw Chum. Dunedin, October 11.