Manchester Boad Board

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 110, 17 April 1888, Page 2

Manchester Boad Board

» TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. g IR> — What is the Boad Board about ? lam they are sending round a petition to take over a piece of the Manawatu District owned by 18 holden. The object of this ia clear. As was pointed out in your paper a few weeks ago by Ratepayer No. 5, these . j 18 holders on the other side of the rail i way line want a bridge and a road in front of their sections. The first scheme fell through because the Government would not lend the money to be spent, as it could hare been, altogether on the bridge when the IS | settlers who now want to join us would haTe promptly thrown out this rate of 2^d in the £. We on our side of the railway who have a bridge, and a road for which we hare paid in the price of our land would then had to pay our special rate of fire-eighths of a penny in the £. Messrs Bufi, Bailey, Jones, and Co. would have got their bridge and no rate, while the roads we roted for would hare been left unmade for waat of funds. It was a pretty scheme, but thanks to the Government, it failed. Now we are to petition to take these 18 holders property out of the Manawatu District, so that the rates may be fd instead of fd to us while theirs is reduced from 24d to fd. The game is a little too plain. One comfort is they must get twothirds of the signatures of the ratepayers in the whole Manchester District before their petition can succeed. Men of Upper Taonui, Feilding road, and Bonnythorpe. refuse to a man to sign any petition of the kind. They got one vote through, and a good job for us it failed!. Let those who benefit by the railway road and bridge pay for it Why should we put extra rates on ourselves for works that benefit only those fronting the railway line and the people on the other side of the river, who don't pay * farthing ? It is a very neat dodge, but it won't take us in. It would put a pound an acre on to the value of the sections of all those It friends of ours, but nothing on to ours. Besides* what share of the debts of the Manawatu Bead Board does this 18 block owe ? Once let them be stuck on to us, and we have to take that debt over with the rest of their unmade roads. Mr Built and Mr Bailey, and Mr Jones may have a keen eye to the main chance, but we are just waking up, and they are not going to have us easily this time. Fellow settlers ! refuse to sign the petition, and let' those who benefit rate themselves. — I am, ftc., . TJrra Taovux. |_Our correspondent seems rather sensitive, still as we said on Saturday, the liabilities to be taken over with the proposed new district should be clearly stated before anyone can be fairly asked to sign the petition. — Ed. F.S.] ■