CORRESPONDENCE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1937, 10 May 1880, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE MARKET PLACE. To the Editor of the Globe. Sis, —Ab one of the tenanta of the Municipality in the Market place, I would like to ask, through you, have the city fathers a I right to let their property to us as a market \ place, charge us a rental of £5 a year, we 1 having to build our own shanties, and by them be prohibited from doing any trade but one, namely, that in colonial produce. Owing to the rental we are forced to pay, and the expense of building, we think we have a right l to ask the Council to go a step further with us. By reason of the heavy outlay in build- , ing, and the almost prohibitive rental we pay, we have, and justly, too, to our minds, great room for complaint, inasmuch as other dealers, cockatoes, &c., with impunity hawk colonial produce through the city, much to the detriment of us who are so heavily handicapped with rent, and prohibited from erecting a structure in either brick or stone, whereby they (the Council) impose on us the erection of a substantial or beautiful building or wood or other material, which beautifies Iho centre of the city at our expense, and on property that may bo taken from ns at any moment. I say this advisedly, because the Oounc’l are always blundering. They never make one single agreement with any person or persons but what, if picked to pieces, they lose their case. Mr Melliah’a ipse dixit is generally “ Casa dismissed.” I will give you only one reason why I am terrified on the above-named points. The City Council at one time engaged a doctor of law to protect their interests. Even that doctor could not protect them. Now, Mr Editor, they have a more firm of solicitors 1 If we that hare beautified the Market place, through some misfortune or misdemeanor, get into the claws c£ the powers that be, what would become of our elegant and showy properties, which surely should suffice to please the eye of the public as well as the town hall that was to have been. Patiently waiting a reply, I am, &c., Old Post Ofpics.