CORRESPONDENCE, PROPOSED BORROWING £1500

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 184, 25 December 1886, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE, PROPOSED BORROWING £1500

Tntrcfrongwnai/Ai well ns tym rated to. 4*y liuwelt/ en/ jt&£i mondy spent for their immediate benefit. I a^nu. howeveM£iBBlUha6liucjM $Msj as iwifchjout'iu-cjio&bjb L tjhe, Uy\ Tatopnyßrsiin.^lrfe^Ridiu^ will .bo -join&y; Ami ¥\\'\}Xit\\y\l\hfaUt>b\'d Hl{ .uiwDunß 6iwfW«|>ary^ sfttlera wlio »%nt^M t,^ taj HQ manner that ,po»«t 'to "borrow wou^K~lTe"o"pj)giS^l by fhe'tZi,' ti^ fchey-dbfeclodJio beTitited^Cp-.pay-, fou forming a-^'oad which; was*? n&ti "at 4 pi^^t teqwrfS j an3[ j^t ' have good' gromids for complaining jj of, bbayd v rqacU,'lf jahy.dfie has in tfifS;-Ryiing. N!ow,- I WQuli iyg©i on n0 r%tepay6rs of Te Aroha township to <^rjßfulij^consider -what re3ponaibility they: are about to undertake if they vote, for Uhe proposal at the poll to betaken ou the 29 th instant or «bs'£ain from voting against it. . The the Riding hare resofvecl to have some fo^n>oF loijaV gp'rerntamitapartf rbm tk§ county,»ndtheT yill'find'ttiatif Mr Mlrphy 1 ?^ o^? 3^. is carried, it may most seriously militate , against ,^«ir Jporrovringimder the powers iwliiOT r may,W L gnfnW io them tf'iittte I later ( ;op^s v a TownjDistrict or Borongh. I Th« portion of tHis Riding which it is p&ppij^to£om:mto a ToTrn Difitriot contains,^ I. believe, about' half the amonntof tho rttenble-: property of .the. Hiding, and it mast: certainly appear to WefySn*enh%ir i they will" hare to pay about half the total amount of interest on < theyHpie of the loan, while asrhas already 'been -shown the pro^ds^Q; expenditure from the Racecourse tq_,Stoney Creek is toj)©£23s. If th^Tate^ayws of T« Aroha dQigo to the jpoll and vote that •£15d0"'be l borrowed to help to wake W" road , to"i settlement which haa coniy ■eiUe^.nppn it as yet one resident, as at the mjseting, * white ftfads, •td develope our gol.dfield are so much "required^ pur streets) are in .such great heed 1 of formation, and some" sylstent %\ drainage so urgently 1 needed it will be a jnatU^moch-to be "^plored, "aniipwliich, they will after'wards-be- sorryj for.- ! * And they/wiHjbe more-iprry; still t if do: not -go -to the poll and -record their- vote against the proposal. Hoping -you will find space for *these feTr\lines.— l am, etc., A Te Ahoha Ratepayer. T 060.22^,1886.

I>} RATEPAYERS BE CABEFUL. (to the editor.) your permission to place r^for^ttrec^ite&g^ of the Te Aroha ;Ri^gimyC^^w the inexpediency of J^fcpi^um^^iQu'ge sum of money to "W"«p«P<6^KK^tH«oiination of roads at Suppose the sum the work ' CQulcUtibt 'tft 'c&inftnfeneed before the end Ifejbrjbairyi.AJl Js&ming of roads should be completed by^twit time, to allow of hardening 1 before twe metalling- is done. The proposed bridging over the two creeks Waiorongomai 9ncl.\4Wairakau, both of which have good scutid beds foe traffic, is tttteriy abstim j asplflfotlly i£ the bridge across Mr Roches gully is it sample of what we may expoct in that line. The cost of that bridge was £160 to £200, it has only been;OjK* twelvemonth, and it has already been * repaired several times and there is now on the estimates a further sum of £80 to patch it up again. Now with two other proposed new bridges to patch up, we shall require some three hundred pounds for that purpose As for forming a road *f rom Murphj 's Landing through Wilson '^ resrtion up to Wsiorpngomai, that is another piece of absurdity, when we have* already a good road not five chains longer than the new one would :be The present state of Waio.rongomai does not Warrant us in spending any more money on such work. If the sum fs borrowed I would advise using £300 or so of-it-in-doing-some of-the -most needful repairs, and fix the rest for eight months in the bank to be expended at thb proper time next year. I may say that I was rather astonished to find at the meeting the other night the Engineer to the Council appointed chairman, as it entirely de barred all criticism of the estimates furnished by him. I may add that any one with jjthg jfllighleft- knowledge of road making will sk once see how very email the s^m.ount.is compared to great length of road, some fifteen miles, which it has to cover. It simply .means extra taxation next year to complete the work begun. TrgtfiDg: that I/have.- not encroached too much sn yoiir valuable space.^-1 nm, &c, ~' ' . Tj r f l ' t }, v I > -•> r ; T , William JF *^Hdnt. Waiorongomai, Dec. 24th, 1886.

1 Bm.-^AB76tt'Mve'taken a ! go>|d deal; o£ interest in endeavouring to T acquire Local Self Govenrinent'for Te Aroha, : 70a will perhaps agree with rqe, that it is a most prepostrous idea" to bare as saddled with the coßt of a loan of .£l5OO, to be spent on a road, which is not at present'requii-ed. Fancy the residents of Te Aroha agreeing to tax themselves to pay a large portionof f the interest, on the whole of the Lqan, wh'en leWtbati' one fif tk o£ ihe money, is to he spent for the benefit of the Township. It is to be hopod that every ratepayer in Te Aroha, whether he be in favor of Borough or Town Board, will vote against this proposal. The Mills, the "Whitehonseg, the Hotchins and other Boroughites, should in this one matter any how, join with the Robsons, the Dobs^na.,, the Woods, ami ovh?r Town Boardites' im the endeavour to oppose this Loan, as the greatest portion of the money is to ' bti ■•^Psntjfor _ the. Jiqnefit ,Ji^,%Q^jtrp7iyB Munroes, Montagues, and other special' settlers, who arp nofryet however settled on their lttud.^Pa^jiic/i 1 ; ;' X/ounty Ratepayer, .. ;.

,1 >:.sli:. i^, vinr K>ito\t) .ifl J^^H^lJir*? one oi &°&* y*ho attended the meejing held on Tuesday evening last to discuss borrowing" £1500, to. be spent dn "file mam roa3/'from the racecoarse, Te Ajnha, .to. tKe Gordon Special Settlement; and also through tHa^ sfettlem«at;TrrMP'D. Morphy, the memoer of t H iitheiiikOiCcunty Council for this Riding,levjdeiitly thinks that this scheme U one that will be approved of by the whole of the ratepayers7df^tbtf-Riding, seeing thpt it was from Ins fertile brain that tha tfiroiect emanated.'- However, I]would J>e mcjined to entertain a cqW •I^W^o^ **°* expressed «t t]|e , meeting by Mr Murphy, and thememTNfi 6f^fte"t3teni6Tr Speciai-iiettlemjßnt.' .briliWtfeofnpieDpose^ aWflcks^ $oal)i »c Uajblf in prqrortion io die amount spent ar?mm a /' r Ms woold bi til vpy well, and no doubt the wjiole