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The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, May 21, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The interest evinced by ratepayers in the referend taken on Tuesday, to decide th rating area for the proposed water and drainage loans, was v :y disapointing. Out of aro number of 577, which, after allowing for absentees, would eave at least 500 voters who, if they took any interest in borough affairs, should have recorded their votes, only 194 took the trouble to go to the poll. The object of the referendum was to ascertain whether the majority of the ratepayers favoured the whole borough being included, or only that portion which it is intended to reticulate if the loans are sanctioned, but as a result of the apathy displayed by ratepayers, the real object of the poll was defeated as almost two-thirds of them failed in their duty as citizens, and did not record their votes. Such indifference is very regretable indeed. Of those who did show an appreciation of the responsibility devolving upon them, there was an overwhelming majority in favour of the whole borough being included, and their wishes will be given effect to. This important question having now been decided everything is ready for the Council to take the preliminary steps to get the loan proposals under way, and this will no doubt be done at the special meeting of the Council to be held on Monday evening next. It should now only be a matter of four or five weeks before the ratepayers will be given another opportunity of saying whether Foxton shall have an up-to-date water supply and drainage system, or whether the present unsatisfactory state of affairs shall continue.

Up to December 31st last, according to a Board of Agriculture report, a total of 182,022 acres had been acquired in Great Britain under the Small Holdings Act, 125,971 acres having been purchased for ,£4,126,421, and 56,051 acres leased for rents aggregating ,£68,291 a year. Of this land 157,883 acres had been actually let by County Councils to 11,021 individual small holders, and 476 acres sold to forty-two small holders ; while County Borough Councils had let 994 acres to 209 individual tenants. In addition. 8037 acres had been let to sixtybne co-operative small holdings associations, who had sub-let the land to 1424 of their members, and 3314 applicants had been provided with over 44,000 acres by private landowners direct. Uand acquired by County Councils, but not yet let in small holdings, amounts to 14,255 acres, which it is estimated will provide for 817 applicants and one association, and County Boroughs have about 700 acres not yet allotted, which will probably provide for at * least another xoo applicants. It appears, therefore, that the Act has resulted in the provision of small holdings for 17,005 applicants in six years.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1248, 21 May 1914, Page 2

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The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, May 21, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1248, 21 May 1914, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, May 21, 1914. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1248, 21 May 1914, Page 2

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