CURE EXTRAVAGANCE.
To the Editor. Sin, — I see by the Stab to-night that the City Council are on the eve of f ogling away a-tow more thousands ofthe' ratepayers* money in what they call City improvements. Now, what are imiprbvements ? Large deep cuttipgs, leaving the houses en either side 220 ft. in the air. I, for one, fail to see the advantage ojr benefit of this. If they want to improve the City, let them look at the hovels; that deface some of our best streets, BJty Walker street, for instance. Where would you find a better street than this? But it is ruined by the hovels that are allowed to exist on both sides of it. I daresay our wise men, in the Council—and there some even in that body—yfould answer that they have not the ppweb to interfere with property. , B«t they have. They could introduce a bye-hyw qpjppellipg; landlords to improve their premises, and hotallow our bast streets to be defaced, by aoMnbny sheds being erected in them. The-Council seems to have no thought for the beauty of the place. Their highest ambition seems to be to find out who' can talk and quarrel the most, sc;- 1 am, &c., _ * ’ RATEPAYER. Dunedin, ,N ovemberj22.
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Evening Star, Issue 4289, 24 November 1876, Page 4
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207CURE EXTRAVAGANCE. Evening Star, Issue 4289, 24 November 1876, Page 4
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