RESIDENCE AREAS IN KUMARA.

Kumara Times, Issue 1783, 19 June 1882, Page 2

RESIDENCE AREAS IN KUMARA.

[to thk editor.] Sir —Through your reports of the Borough Coum-il meetings I notice that the Mayor, in his wisdom (and no donht assisted by the sapient opinion of some of the councillors), is about to perpetrate a great wrung, besides acting in a manner calculated to give the public the idea that he is a vacillating and undecided person, most unfit to occupy the position of chief magistrate of Knmara, by rescinding the resolution anent granting residence areas in the town. Surely (lie majority' of the “ united wisdom ” cannot bear the thought that they will be the scoff of and not only that hut will engender a 'arge amount of hatred and ill-feeling towards themselves by acting in the manner referred to, besides perpetrating a gross wrong on those who have bought their property at a most extortionate rate, in the giving to mere speculators (the sections in many cases adjoining those purchased) a belter bargain, and making them on an equality with those who have made the town. Times are vety poor just now, and the value of property has depreciated so much that those persona who want the areas would not think of purchasing at the same rate that we have done. And what do we see but our local curators endeavouring to still further depreciate om property. By the action which they are endeavouring to bring about, they put the freeholder in an inferior position to one holding an area under a miner’s right, as he will never be able to realise his own capital by the sale of Ids property when a bu»er can take up a section and hold it for the nominal rent of £1 per annum. We have elected a Mayor and Council to conserve our rights, and I, therefore, as a ratepayer demand justice at their hands by a decided recommendation to the Warden that he refuse to grant any sneh.—l am, yours, <kc., Freeholder. Kumara, June 19th, 1882.