WAIMEA RAILWAY TAX.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 347, 11 April 1884, Page 2

WAIMEA RAILWAY TAX.

MEETING AT LTTMSDEN. A well attended meeting was held, at Jbumsden on Saturday evening with a view .to arrange what action should betaken to resist payment of the tax proposed to be levied by the Waimea Plains Railway Co. The first was carried unanimously, y?s& to the. effect that in event of the Company insisting upon payment of the tax, the ratepayers should combine to oppose payment, ' the necessary expense to be divided -pro fata among the ratepayers. The next motion, ; however, did not meet with the approval p£ , ; ■

:vS,i : : thejneetin^.;.it w^s tP the effect that the men\;p^§rs; > fori'ln l y l ercargili and Axvarua be asked <^jt6;i^|,ke,steps'-to get Government, to -take the line oven An- amendment was proposed by if the'Waimea Plains Sv^llail^ay^ Company had madeabad speculation, : f^e^them'stick.toit." He (Mr Pickens) said the line T^y'as/not; paying let the' compnny i'?i/?ptitit nptiy "auction and sell it. There was >1 /doubt ,the ''railway was constructed to ! ? #;\en;iiance 'thefvaliie bf^thfe.landit. went through, j "was done by a.few speculators who &&osMd. to'-^place the land in the London s^raa^et.'-^^-Fhe-: -.■•"spec"'" had riot' proved S'||4tiaiiqia)j,y'; ; as successtul as ( they anticipated, | rt%^|n'a^^w^.hey-wer'e.in-dimcu'lties they wished j #f^ps|fprci /"tbe;. iatepay'er^ to make up the j fls^dlWeflcy.'—Mr r McMnth seconded the am- ' He could Tiot sec why the Govern - a«kcd to ■ tnke over, a line paying. If.it did. not p.'.y the-; rates were higher, that those Government -lines, how rould IPvit'Ve.expeQtp^iip'b.e.a profitable investment vjv^fpr. 'ifie'GrpyefiYmeiii ?- "Let the company the ratepayers must use very JoJ)p9S6^..the;-rate. i The .ainendf^^^ntm^caTrigd.^-'^ ', ' '• '*