The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918 NEXT WEEKS LOAN POLLS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 405, 30 August 1918, Page 2

The Times. PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOONS.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918 NEXT WEEKS LOAN POLLS

"We nothing extenuate, nor tet down auaht in malice."

Two important propositions are next week to be submitted to a referendum by way of ratepayers being asked to approve of proi jected loans. ' On Wednesday it will be for the ratepayers of the borough of Pukekohe to decide whether or not a technical high school is to be added to the educational equipment of the town. The sum wanted, namely £2,500, is to enable a site suitable for the school to be purchased, the Minister for Education (the Hon. J. A. Hanan, I M.P.J having practically promised that if land is offered the Education Department will erect the building. Although in order to expedite the taking of the poll and to meet the requirements of the law it is proposed to pledge the borough rates as security for the repayment of the full £2,500, as a j matter of fact only half the liability will fall 011 the borough ratepayers as the Franklin County Council, recognising that the County will be benefichlly affected by the provision of improved educational facilities at Pukekohe, have agreed to accept responsibility for half share of the annual payments for inteiest and sinking fund. The advantages of such a place of instruction being set up for the benefit of scholars, who have passed beyond the primary school curriculum, have been previously referred to in these columns and are indeed so obvious that a fairly unanimous vote should be secured

The poll of ratepayers of a special rating area to be taken next Friday at the instance of the Franklin County Council is in

respect of one of the most important reading schemes yet put forward in the County, namely to metal the main roads in the Waiau Pa and Karaka districts at a cost of £27,0011. Unlike a loan affecting a borough, in which a bare majority decides the issue, a threefifths' majority is required in a County to give effect to a loan proposal and it will therefore be-

hove every ratepayer concerned, if he desires to secure better reading conditions, to make a point of proceeding to one or other of the various polling booths so as to record his vote or votes in favour of the loan. Elsewhere in this

issue we reprint the contents of; circular issued by (jr J. S. Mont gomerie in advocacy of the Cotin

cil's proposals and if such is reac

and carefully considered it ough

to convince any person at present doubtful that it is to his (the ratepayer's! best interests that the money should be raised. ('r

Montgomerie has since his elcctior

,Ast November to the Counci

shown that he is a capable judge of the requirements of the riding he represents and as an owner in tho Karaka district lie realises that the ratepayers in that locality, well as in the vicinity ot W'aiau Pa. will by metal roads be in;/ constructed to their properties derive advantage lor outweighing the drawbacks of the imposition of the small special rate that the lo.in will entail. Obj.rtorsto enterprise and progress are always to be found but we trust that in this instance their selfish and narrow views will not be sufficiently powerful to thwart

thr carrying into execution of a

lot ward movement