BOROUGH AND SUBURBS
(To the Editor of the Times.) .Sir,..—For a period measurable by years amalgamation of the borough and suburbs is as extinct as the Dodo,
judged from the evinence placed lien ic them the Government have wisely and justly vetoed the Borough commandeering the suburbs. A strong fteiing against amalgamation exists among nearly the whole of the Whautaupoko residents. There are a few
itieconcilables, but their attitude is governed by feeling, not by reason, Even reviewing in a friendly spirit the administration of Borough affairs during the last decade, it is impossible for the suburbs to agree to a scheme that will deprive them of the power of ad-
m nistering their own local affairs and consequently the power of vetoing special rating proposals. This power it is essential that they should tenaciously retain, the County Council can be ousted from Whautaupoko by cheaper and better methods than annexation by tiie Borough. A small coterie met last Friday evening and passed resolutions which have no insight and are worthless. An illustration of the spirit in which they were written is contained in the one asking Government- to appoint a commission, and naming one of the Commissioners. But on examination it will be seen that one of the gentlemen named signed the petition for amalgamation. It is a moral
that he would under the circumstances refuse to act if asked by Government, But it is an indication to what lengths t-h; moribund committee will go to press their immature scheme upon a la; ge and unwilling majority. Two gentlemen who sat on this one-sided committee deserve the sympathy of the whole district for the noble and’ dis-
interested way they fought such Homeric battles and sacrificed so much for the principles of Liberalism and to sustain the present Government in power. But-, alas, it is an ago of base ingratitude. The poor uncrowned “ local kings ” are at last triumphant. It is about time that they had their day, for they would “sooner rule in a Liberian hamlet than be second in Rome.”—l am, etc., CADMUSj
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 431, 2 June 1902, Page 3
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346BOROUGH AND SUBURBS Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 431, 2 June 1902, Page 3
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