WERAROA STREETS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 January 1914, Page 4

WERAROA STREETS.

Sir, —When will the Borough Council awake to a sense of justice and do a little on the back streets of YVeraroa and Levin. It is scandalous the way the streets are neglected at YVeraroa. In one street that 1 happened to visit the other day quite a young forest had grown up wnich shows plainly the utter disregard the Council has for this part of the Borough. Every building in YVeraroa has been paying heavy rates since the commencement of the Borough and scarcely a penny has been spent there. The unfairness and utter disregard that the Council has for this part of the town is to say the least of it ''monstrous." In winter the footpaths are ankle-deep in mud, and in summer it is almost impossible to walk on them on account of the long grass and w r eeds. Oho! if some good critic would only examine the Council's Dooks and find out the scandalous waste of money that has taken place since the commencement of the Borough or from the time the well known "white elephant lamp was placed in the Square, not to forget the time when the highest tenders were accepted for a number of contracts instead of the lowest. And what do we find after all this waster' That the people of YVeraroa cannot even get a fraction of their own rates expended to enable them to get decently to their doors. Is there one honest man in me Council who is man enough to speak up and get this glaring injustice righted:' I see Councillor Deinpsey is asking for exemption m the case of meter rents for EriendSocieties. What roj.! YVhy should not friendly Societies pay as well as private persons. If there were to be concessions at all it is the poor families who should have them, not Friendly Societies, in any case why should the general ratepayer pay for gaslight for societies ¥ 1, with many 1 others, belong to no society—l don't believe in them. Why should I pay for those who do believe in them ? My society is the general brotherhood of all humanity. Your society picks out only a chosen few. Why should the rest pay for your gas meter:' Absurd. If the Town Clerk recommends for such to be done, he will fall 100 per cent m my estimation, and in the estimation of many more. Trusting you will publish this letter in full. 1 am, etc.,' A HEAVY IUTEPAYEK.