Starting Loan Works.

Patea Mail, 4 September 1882, Page 2

Starting Loan Works.

The Borough Council meet this evening for ordinary business, and also to arrange about raising the loan, and calling for tenders to start some improvement works. It is to be regretted that the majority of Councillors did not see sufficient reason to take action at the special meeting a week ago, instead of postponing all business in connection with the loan expenditure. All work is not to be suspended merely because the Mayor is absent from a special meeting. There was no difficulty in calling tenders for some works, bn the funds of an overdraft already offered by the banks. The employment of workmen to get money into circulation is so urgent, that no business man can be ignorant of it. When fine weather has advanced, there will be less need for special exj endilure. It is just when there is so little doing in the town that the Council should do their part by applying a stimulus to trade. It is to be hoped the public will have no further reason to complain of delays. By starting works at present, the local stagnation will be relieved if not removed, -and the benefit will be felt all round, believe all the Councillors are trying to do the right thing; but ratepayers are entitled to say that the right thing ought to be done at the right time. So much time had slipped away before the loan scheme was carried, that not a day should have been lost after the Council were in a position to call for tenders. There's the rub.