Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1871.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1172, 15 November 1871, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1871.

Strange as it may appear, there are some folk who exhibit a marvellous desire for taxation. It is, perhaps, well for them that they can complacently contemplate their ability to face the tax collector, but we fear the reverse is the position of the great bulk of our fellow townsmen. There is, however, the need to crive a word of caution to such lhat while they listen to the grandiloquent descriptions by interested parties of the benefits that would flow from haying a Mayor and a Corporation to improve the town, thav. this means salaried offices for them and a host of hangers on, but the paying of the bill by the general public. Great opposition was offered to the education rate by a lai-ge section of the community, tyit in the event of Napier being brought under the operation of the Municipal Corporation Act, that tax will prove to \s. f\s_ nothing compared with the im-

posts which will be placed upon the people. We decidedly object to the scheme for the sufficient reason that the people cannot afford it, and, as pointed out by our contemporary the Herald this morning, there is no need for h. The legislation of the General G-overn-ment has vested sufficient powers in Superintendents of Provinces to supply all local needs without the resort to more government by a community already the most over-governed of any on the face of the globe.