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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 March 1916, Page 2

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I A nviiiiiui i.• j at a .-lu-m-Kilifi 'Iv: Liu l.e/m u. C.OMH-'■-L ii'i'.l .Mill-o. iioiiiui Comity C< >n'l cj I (j.uii;.; 1i.;.-, iii",u iiiii-io i.. Levin jiorengn v■ i. iiit-ii ~y ;t.» Ntri-c. ; l O.'itII) : t tor. lilt' |>i ■ iposi tioii 1.-. uiir u.al uo'i/ I pruootii i*i ? m lie*] Ii- handiSoinely il tiiev 't inn.. Better roads would, it silk ; tar-bruer loads. liieir up iu'ijj ivnnJti heroine expensive, i"i' a properly-equipped rond-roller ua.s ei 1 ' ■' t ' r| "'eiilo n itli widen Mir won) i* can In. K,nt up to a depth ei' tfolne iIK-Jle--. ilnis Setting | rue till' old ni: ui> lor rr-grading and re-binding •CKlht ii'i\ iinl.ijrri's UI tile use of I'nadlullei.-. 'Aero set out .in the article oi weinr iiv e ~r mx years «go wherein. 'i lit t ,-mmiVlr Iteiran the movement in layout oi procuring a road roller for Le-i-ill borough and Horowhentia comity. J'or t.;e present ivc Jiavo no desire to labour this side of the argument, for ue believe there is a general approval ol tne pri.pi i>r:i >. Hie liurdile ill t-ho collide ol progress js the need lor fintrnig ilio money. Had it been possible to purehase the road-roder with bor-

rowed ltuiiiey. the roller would have been uiili us for sonic years pa.st, but inasmuch a wi.-c Jegisiatiuv has pitl a uan upon tbe purchase ot such machinery oul of ban moneys, the hearlhaifo.u i- fact Jxas to ho faced that cniiect taxation will be necessary-be-fore the councils can loot the bill for this very li'.XTS.ury piece of plant. This w»is tiie rock upon which the .ship o; piogress eatue t n a standstill three J cans ago. when negotiations were in prog, e s between the two eunneils. l'O'sibly ihe idea'of finding the lieces sur.v money hy diroc-t taxation wiil seem loss venturesome to-day than i). did aforetime. "Familiarity breeds contempt," wo rood,, and it may be tint lamiharity with the idea of paving cash may have mitigated to some extent the lerdmgs of wound a! anionr propri Mia-t orstwhi'e aotualcd tile iiin> opponents ol this progressive |iropn,.il. To purchase so mof liiii;: expensive out ol' the proceeds of direct Iflxatioii would bo. an r\co[ leri! i,'i- ri. v .ViiPtra iloca/ bod,v. for it has been an unwritten Jaw with all local Tmdies (for halt

a century or more) never to pay cash uJjcio cn.'iht could be gut. As an .-lus-ti-utiaii poetaster has put the matter (in one ol three verses hitherto unpublished; Our way is unpjogresdve ; our hurizon is "To-day' ; And liistlessut'ss our drowsy -\vili enfetters ; Why trouble for the future, when posterity must pay? Our hind is lean : for lions vro '11 bp deb tors Ho! let the borrowed millions flow! riij.ht merry shirll we be; •VeiitJi southern skies we'll form a new Ismailia.; I'or OK the land, not OX it, at the time to loot the bill. Will beOUK generation of Australia.