THE BOROUGH LOAN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 75, 6 March 1883, Page 2

THE BOROUGH LOAN.

— ' ♦ rWe are glad. to observe that a good deal of discussion is going on anent the proposed expenditure of the Borough loan of £6,000. At a public meeting, which will be held at an early date to consider the schedule of works, ratepayers will have an opportunity of expressing their views fully, and will -be able to criticise each , item on the li»_. -' But; during-, the; time which must elapse in tfie interim, it will be jrefl for ratepayers to prepare themselves to 'take : pari 'in the proceedings, and thoroughly ventilate the uses or otherwise of particular parts of the works proposed to be executed. To this

end we invite free discission iv our columns, which are open to all who choose to avail themselves of them for "such purpose. From a variety of circumstances that need not now be alluded to, ratepayers have not had many opportunities of making their numerous wants known. Doubtless many of them have regarded any such attempt hopeless or useless, owing to the knowledge that funds were not available to alleviate thpm, or that they would receive scant sympathy for their pains. The position of things is now altered, inasmuch as there is every probability of means beinij given to tho Borough Council of improving every part of the Borough, and Councillors will, no doubt, be only too glad to amend the schedule of proposed works when it is pointed out to them where such amendment is necessary. An .idea seems to prevail in the minds of some ratepayers, thjit each Councillor will endeavour to have part of the loan expended in improving roads and bridges opposite or near his own property, whether such work is for the general benefit of the Borough of not. Let us hope that such will not be the case ; but cv. n if it were so, we venture tp think that the Press and the public would step in to prevent any such acdon, and protect the: interests of any section of the community which was not strongly enough represented in the Council.