PUBLIC OPINION.

Patea Mail, 16 June 1882, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

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TO BE OR NOT TO BE, Having carefully considered the position the members of the Borough Council have arrived at as regards the alteration of the levels of the town, I beg leave to inform the said Council that as I had contemplated building in Bedford-street, on ray land, on the present levels being carried out, I shall be compelled to alter vny plans, which means money, so that I shall wait patiently to see the results of the new wonderful scheme. I must say that since the Borough was incorporated, which is over eight months now, there has been nothing else but schemes, and those very detrimental to the town and district, having been the means of keeping the place at a standstill on account of so much ill-feeling being displayed by certain Councillors when any progress was about to be made. It will be a great benefit to the town when the three fresh vacancies occur, and a far greater benefit when the second vacancies occur (bar one). I should like to put a question to some of the Councillors in reference to the promises they made ; and do they think for one moment that we ratepayers would have put them in such an honorable position if we thought they would have behaved in the way they have done in supporting the procrastination scheme ? I can assure some of the Councillors that in opposing the present scheme they have done what can not be undone for some time to come. Something: like £s26 has been paid away for salaries, &c., and for what if the present ■ scheme is abandoned ? Some Councillors at the meetings say they have not seen the proposed levels of the town. How is it that any ratepayers could have seen the same for this two months or more, and yet Councillors coud not if they had been so inclined ? As regards my personal interest in Bed-ford-street, I shall be one of these who will have a fair share of a deep cutting in front of my property which is close to Odgers’ hotel, but still withal I would never think of opposing the present levels in justice to other landowners. JAMES LETT.