INGLEWOOD NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 92, 22 April 1902, Page 2

INGLEWOOD NEWS.

(from our own corresponded.) Sour seven or eight months ago the ratepayers of Inglewood got suddenly frightened that th*y ware going to lose the management of their own affairs by the threatened swallowing up of -town districts into the counties. To ment tLia contingency they immediately started to form themselves into a borough, which then seemed a very simple thing ended. As time went on and the proposed borou?L got nearer and nearer to an accomplished fact, difficulties innumerable rose up. First and foremost the boundaries bad to bo defined, and afttr three i.r four heavy meetings tho boundaries were fixed. It now turns out that the boundary of the proposed borough aud_ the Moa Kaad District runs right through Mr Marshall's house. But, " for fear of delating the borough," the line was loft as at first laid down. Then tho question of roads cropped up, and became one of the burniug questions of the day. It appears, nccording to the Public Works Act, any persons subdi-; viding land for sale in (-mail lots must ] form ro.ids through the land to givo w.j road frontage to every lot r.flered ffl l "] salf, and if vlie laud is situated within j three miles cf a borough, must me-il j the roods and put in watortables and j footpaths. A ratepayer living on tV! wes: of the township has just cut upi for sale abaut 150 acres and form d hi- ! roaii* as required by the Act. If his : roads are panstfd by tho local authority before Inglewood is proclaimed , boiough, ho do-'K Hot linve t ' metal' them; so naturally enough ba is fight . Kg to keep back th« barough and get; his rends passed, and 'he townspeople , aie trying to push on th« borough and; keip back bis reads. This has been i the state of affairs until two weeks ago, j | when tbe wholu matter was referred to. | the Minister for Lands. Let ui hope,! I whatever the decision is, we ge 1 ; the; borough, and so keep up wih other j inland towns. I