PAPAKURA PARK

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 469, 3 October 1919, Page 2

PAPAKURA PARK

A Manifesto. Ratepayers beware ! Within the next few weeks you will be asked by the Town Board to vote on two loan proposals. With the first proposal viz £4OOO for road improvement, we have no fault to find, except that it is not nearly enough, but just think for a moment what it means. You are asked to vote £I9OO of that amount to buy out he lease of your own property, which is now revenue producing and should remain so for all time These sections (there are fifty six of them ranging in area from 15 acre to 2 J acres) were given to the district by the Government in 1886, for the specific purpuse of assisting the funds of the Town District (see Gazette 21 June 1886). We look upon the taking of these endowments for recreation purposes, and alienating them as a revenue producing asset, as a breach of faith on the part of members of the Board, with the ratepayers—the Board may have the legal, but certainly not the moral right, to do so. We congratulate the Chairman of the board on the stand he has taken | he is looking -t the business side of the matter; the other members evidently think that by converting these endowments to a recreation ground, they are going to satisfy the public. We do not think so.

With the kind permission of the editor, we will in a latar issue of thia paper explain more fully our reasons for bringing this matter before you, and why we a«>k you to vote against the £2OOO loan for a park site. We sign this letter as ex-members of the Papakura Town Board, claiming to have the present and future welfare of the district at heart* A Willis E. S Cole D. B. Stewart Papakura, September 30th 1919.