THE LOAN PROPOSALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 40, 15 February 1913, Page 5

THE LOAN PROPOSALS.

(To the Editor, “Stratford Post.”) Sir,—One cannot help being struck on reading the account published in your paper of last evening, of an interview your reporter had with His Worship the Mayor, how His Worship could see good in everything of the proposals except the bridge. True, he did riot mention this part of the proposal—he neither blessed nor cursed withal. Brit his silence was perhaps more eloquent than his words. It had the advantage too—an advantage' usually sought by the timorous — of enabling His Worship to say that on that subject he had said nothing, and therefore did not lay himself open to attack. There is another matter, too, upon which His Worship has maintained a most discreet silence, and that is the proposal to spend somewhere about £3OOO in improving Broadway. This proposal, if I remember rightly, emanated f(’om His Worship, and is now' beautifully wrapped up in the reading proposals. (If course, I shall be told that the schedule of works is to be published, and this item will be shown amongst others. But mark where this money is to be spent. Between Fenton street and Regan street. I w’onder whether His Worship—seeing that the proposal is his—has 'Sny interest in .this expenditure. Has he any interests in Broadway And why should it start from exactly in the middle of the borough and go only northwards? Has he or any other member of the Council an interest in endeavouring to force the town northwards? It seems, Sir, as Councillor Boon gave us to understand, that the northern end of the borough having the voting is determined to exploit the south—to go in for all sorts of improvements in their end, and in their merdy allowing us in the south to pay for them, A few crumbs are to be thrown to us, as no doubt His Worship will point out, but the feast is for the north, I am, etc., Yours obediently, H. WILSON. Broadway, Stratford, 15th Feb. 1913