The Feilding Star. OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Daily. SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1894. EXTERMINATION OF RATEPAYERS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 75, 22 September 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTY GAZETTE. Published Daily. SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1894. EXTERMINATION OF RATEPAYERS.

♦ • We have already made adverse comment on that part of the new Municipal Corporations Bill by which it is intended to take away all power of dealing with their own affairs from the burgesses and giving it to entirely irresponsible people. This is what our contemporary the Post has to say on the same subject : "In defiance of the opinions of the Municipal Conference, and of every consideration of right and justice, the Government is making another effort to introduce the pernicious principle of Univesal Suffrage into Municipal government, and to render its application still more unfair by tacking to it the one-man-one-vote principle. The new Municipal Bill proposes to take from those who pay the cost of Municipal government the power to direct and control the administration. The ratepayers are to be content with the privilege of finding the money, the power of expending it is to be given to the non-ratepayers. Representation is to be given without taxation. One set of citizens is to find the Municipal revenue and another set is to determine how that revenue thai! be expended. A more revolutionary and Communistic proposal could not well be imagined than that embodied in the new Bill. It is the most direct attack on the rights ot property which has ever been attempted oven by the present Socialistic Ministry. We hope it will be resisted to the utmost, and successfully."