BOROUGH RESERVE AUCTIONERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1910, Page 3

BOROUGH RESERVE AUCTIONERS.

To tho Editor. Sir, It- would be interesting to tlio ratepayers to know on what grounds the selection of a-uctioneei to sell the Gravel Reserve leases wns made by the Rorough Council fit tlioir recent meeting. There are five firms of auctioneers operating in the borough In December last tho Council wrote to at least two of these firms askin< > them to assist the borough m by taking out their licenses a;t Jievjr. Both firms generouslv responded and the funds of the' borough benefited to the extent ol • a ", cl ""Ik'ii nil oppoirtunitv fln-iir.s to return the compliment, the council, ,n its wisdom, carefully ignores the existence of all linns save one.

,J' f ? , '"" s ; s a lisfactiM-y motliod frn lr n ? 'T" t0 nsk !111 tllp <ive iiims to tender or in have civoji tliom all a clinnce. I, v l.nllothio- • 5 1 ', . IC J ; ,r f 'Pw methods would have satisfied all parties. This Sl ,,r^ s . tion ov.dently did not .suit tfe wn the wuiir-,1. _ «di„ cannot sink prsona lcol.no- ~, flpnlillK w . jt]i In matters, and ane prejjarod to SvorfL,',!::' " ,iPn ' SIS "•'"I""-"'-ned S nfV :C T ~p!o V f . ,,mr tl,c ne.vs of tlip l)orou<r)i c„i H liictod 1 "oukl point out that the auction <7 S ajuioinled l,of„ro &' ,ia lived, I his heinn- ollf;; eonsideration.- Vours, T - I'- Iff'DSOX.