CORRESPONDENCE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 546, 1 March 1913, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Editor,

Sir—lt has just occurred fr> me so kindly permit me publication. Our drapers, our grocers, our businses men generally, &ra either property owners or lessees. In either capacity they regularly pay high rates of taxation, and the money that is extracted from them by that means goes, and rightly so, to improve the town. Nnw. why shuuli casual interlopers be allowed without council interference, to come along at intervals and scoop all the available cash while the long-suffering established business men have to be content to take their chances. Hardly a month passes without some purchaser of an assigned estate happens here, and dumps down in the first untenanted place in most cases a lot of secord hand rubbish which he sells for cash only. From time to time hook-nosed cormorantic looking vendors of jewellery pounce down on the unsuspecting, and with extortionate prices, depart with the hard earned gilt of those who fall vie tims in most cases to th.9 tim« payment fiend, whose deposit asked is usunllv the full price of the article vended. Now, why do our councillors not «?xact some monetary penalty from such casuals? I am Jed to believe that in Taumarunui substantial sums have to be deposited with the council there as a guarantee that such cheapjacks will at least remain over a cer tain given period. If there, why not here? Wake up, City Fathers, and protect your genuine ratepayers!—l am, etc., J. B. YOUNG.