RATEPAYERS OR RENTPAYERS?

Shannon News, 30 November 1926, Page 3

RATEPAYERS OR RENTPAYERS?

(To the Editor). Sir, —The discussion, which took place at the last Council meeting relative to the qualifications required by aspirants to the positions of Mayor or councillors, makes amusing reading. Let me assure the gentlemen concerned that there is net, the slightest cause for alarm. It is, I believe, still possible to find citizens, who, although. not ratepayers, are by training, •'experience, and knowledge of men and affairs, just as capable as the presqirt ratepayers holding seats on the Council, of guiding the destinies of the town, at the Council table, or if necessary voicing the wishes and aspirations of the cn occasions of public or national importance. The suggestion that the humble rent payer might run the Council into debt will not carry much weight when we remember that thq> present Council could not proceed to patch up that ancient building, the. Borough Library, until .the consent of the ratepayers had been obtained for .the debt to be incurred. Why waste time, like Don Quixote of old, in tilting at windmills, when there is so. much work of vital importance to be done if our town is to grow and prosper, and go steadily forward on the path of progress.—l am, etc., F. 11. TAYLOR.