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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7829, 23 May 1905, Page 4

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ares not responsible for opinions 'rl'" expressed by correspondents.) THE OIIj TRUST. £ (To the Editor.) socialism "is being "d&cussfc<B in Uw comma of your cant»mpormay I ask you to insert the &>Wfawfrig taken from the National which may interest some ofi !~ "" J ''""» who do not take this lication. "An experiment interest, that the whole retching with the 9,' 1b be-ng carried on in f Kansas. In that State fas ago valuable oil wells ercd. and the Standard Ft true to .0* policy ts irol every source of 01 as'to rivet its monopl upon the country, mad 8 with tho owners of, the; o purchase all the crude to the surface. This cne well-owners to work th their fullest capacity the Standard Oil Trus favourite method tha k never failed to be elTo * the price of crude oil, 1 weltowners had no way | he oil, and the Standard, i„,the only large purchaser ' roleura, they were forced I price below the cost of j ir let thousands of bar. \o to> waste. The whole 1 nflamed. The Legislature! led to go to the weU-own-nd> fcreak the grasp of the' , and after careful cont the matter decided that tective means would be iment of a State oil re-! the Legislature passed a I the' erection of a refinle -the oil produced w This is perhaps the most that has been struck ,at ope>ly, and rtis, juu, the 'Tiiofiopoly am, the most dangerous y has to fear. Hitherto t has met a feeble cornbuying out or ruining whichever was Ahe J kafttrbufalc. and with » resources and practical=ontrol. not only of the ipply. but also of themain the way ".and, specal favours, the railways, it had no 'Petition. Heretofore ,t «» o competivor. Jt put the State's refinerv t that of an individual ■ tomeign within Kb own -JS B Prove* legislative rteriminate against, tbi. ia favour df ***.' » the experiment ftansas it tolj encourmwi njnonopoly. and it will Wjws.impetus to StaS w £± number* hy the thousands.' 1 ehW JOHK MYfcOTTv ABATED BUTTER, ' 'o the Editor.) > *fajrap your leading ar-»th-«n«. t jn whica feet that fha «»; brought under the e attnlster of Agnculture rth Hales, and went on i„ fcevery reason for £ t New Zealand butter on undoubted autnomy fet'ed from a London and he prompt, the natter to theexecuDhamber of Commerce. A the Council of theunam-, venedandheldonKnday' J»s the situation, and deaction should tie lanei, once recognizee l?L he situation, and appoint ition to una on bull during his visit, to lay tore him and urg„ that , nent promptly take ihc is2r2K£ step! !- ,tQ put a Bt °p to «•■ Sterns New Zealand., The Councu n as j&? also informed that an attempt ha* %£ ,****»&y f bem made to capture ior the f* "* utch ' tTwiß a Cons*a«rabie quan-jSj-Wy of Taranaki butter next season SW* r i.j7j ich *• g0 » O1 * P"* WOU W hi Jf^joid-1/ it were snipped direct to RoiW^S^\u Xt is ft 7 to note he several Australasian i^^ B ?r h * va approached me g-«ntish Board of Trade on the suoand that the President 0 f tIM , "^frf haß to re-introauce r Uie« Butter Bill of last session. But jgVchat Bill does not go fai cuougu, gystel strong representations to tne pVdrpish Government recjuire to bt Pr, by the several colonial Uovem- &- jnents without delay, and more gf£j*<*»l'y by our own Government, i, a fcl fi , haa been stated that New Zealand is better suited than anj otnfcj'er for adulteration by the Dutch, igVlJtat the Ghaiober of Commerce took tho matter so promptly ami thn appearance ot } our leauing & .ftticle should convince some ol oui men, 'Who now withhold jjga»elr' support from the (Jnamher. gjEhat ft is a really Ijvc (institution. is endeavouring 10 protect, nt from those things that injure us locally, but also that are of wider importance. ffißo^ i rours, etc, K< / J \MES C. GEOHGE l ?-S'—The following is an extract the letter I refer to IS?" "'JjTregard- to 'IKe future, there are factors cropping up. The appear to have discovered \vhn.h thev can adulS terate to the extent of 30 ptr cent , P r *ond analjkts, although the> know tho & i! J■ : •lJ^rttcr•has , been doctored, cannot deH". toe* it. A great deal of Australian New Zealand butter has found gSj fta, waj mto Holland this, 1 season, S| *nd has come liack again on the Em?with 30 per icnt addsoit is easy to sec if tins is not KZ Stopped its effect is pratticallv to the supplies." THE BATES. ,' fTo the- Editor ) H9graftr*<A' good many people are roinBjjplnfaf' of the bitrden of the Uorough * n< J that as the values haie .so much, while Uis lioiliSßßMl'Tvaluatinn stands even highi-i year, the rates of .ts Id in KgjjjjyPptind are really «|ual to neailj pound, and press very har<lWBEftt: nennli* whose properties arc un"'Who either "do not mint to get anyone to buy. WBaaßtefeM'-'liie subjoined extract from "London newspaper will be Hnßjgijjui&'as;' well as consoling. Evpound is a lot below HHfirajffgAei London County Boroughs

j (Extract.) ! BURDEN OF THE RATES, Editors of newspapers are well |aware that every correspondent who (writes to them with a grievance is the mouthpiece of numbers oi other folk who think precisely the same, < but do not Lake the trouble to write ti> say so. Similarly, the sad story t6W the other day 08 'a rate-payer of Camberwell, who was driven to sui cide because he could not pay his rates, merely expresses the terrible burden which municipal extravagance j has imposed upon the people of this country. Wq do not. mean l , of course, that every man-who suffers from this evil is thinking of blowing out his brains ; but we do mean that the burden of the rates has become so heavy (hn may districts, af not in most) as t 0 add seriously to tho embarrassments of those who have hard work, at the best of times, to make both ends meet.

'lf, indeed, there' is "anyone among our readers who aspire to the honour of election as a, "County or Borough Councillor, we believe that we can give him a very straight. tip for a profitable election platform. Let him take his stand on economy —economy pure and simple, the reduction of rates', no matter at what apparent cost to efficiency. If every elcctofwho is groaning under the present wilful waste would proclaim his intention to vote for no candidate who did not;pledge himself to keep down expenditure, we venture to assert that there would be a notable fallang-eff of the' number of wasteful, wild-Cat projects which are the principal cause of the intolerable burden ol the ratea

—An Interesting Table.— The .position of tho several boroughs in respect of rWtes for the cuiTent year, can be seen from the following table, in which the average rate is sfionn in the case of those boroughs which comprise two or more parishes. Prom this it • will bd seen that, the lowest rated borough) is Kensington and the highest Poplar : . . • s. d. [ «. d< Kensington... 6 6 Hammersmith 7. 4 Westminster 6 8 Islington ... 7 i • Paddington... 6 8 liamheth ...-7 5 ' Fin*bnry .:. 610 Dcptford ... 7 6 Chelsea ... 611 Lcwisham ... 7 6 8. Marylebonc 611 Shoreditch.,, 7 7 B.Newington 611 Greenwich... 7 9 Hampstead... 7 0 Woolwich... 710 Holborn ... 7 0 Bethnal-green 8 1 |Bt. Pancra?.. 7.1 Camberwell... 8. ]| Wandsworth 7 li Battersea ... 8 2 Hackney ... 7 2" Stepney ... 8 6J Soalhwark,... ,7 2-J Pormondsey 9 7'• Falham ~'. 7 1 Poplar ... 10 1