THE PROPOSED BOROUGH BYELAWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 99, 24 October 1893, Page 2

THE PROPOSED BOROUGH BYELAWS.

TOTHB EDITOR OF THE BTAK. Sir,—lf you will kindly insert the foX lowing, I don't think I shall trorible yon much more, for, according to your leading article of the 19th instant, it seems to no purpose. I must first thank yon for the title of caviller, and I think that if all the ratepayers nnd settlers were called together you would have a big company of them, as every ratepayer and settler I have spoken lo agree that these proposed Bye-laws are arbitrary and worse; and there must be something wrong when our •• truly liberal " Premier and Minister of Defence, the Hoh B. J. Seddon (more power to his elbow) will not even permit the police to arrest offenders against one of them—namely, pitying in the streets. Now, if, bb Mr Samuel Goodbehere says, no power is given to the Council by the Municipal Corporations Act. to make any Bye^law respecting the repairs of dwel« linghousee, why do it, and discourage people Iroin repairing old houses—like ours—and make them comfortable ? I came into my house IS months ago; it was in a very bad condition; I have repaired it as much as mv limited means permit, and I am going to put it in thorough condition as soon as I can afford it; but if I shall have all that bother and trouble with inspectors that is in this Bye-law, and £5 fine, I shall leave every, thing alone and try and sell out. Here we are living one nnd a half or two and more chains between each house fronting Warwick street, and seven or eight chains between the houses here and in Manches* ter street, ani I ask: What harm can one neighbor do to another if he repairs his house, or what sort of litigation can come out of it ? I say ngain, a lot of these Bye laws are only fit for London and big cities, and not a small place like Feilding, where the houses are scattered about for chains and acres, except down in the Square; they might be right enough there. Bye-laws Bhould be made lo draw people to the place instead of frightening them away, as these proposed certainly will do, and the Feilding build* ing boom of a dozen houses since I came here will be over. I am, etc., G. Mabtin.