CARRINGTON ROAD LOAN PROPOSALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 July 1907, Page 2

CARRINGTON ROAD LOAN PROPOSALS.

AliJi.ut-li a comparatively small public wdy, iin.* I'amiigtoii Koad Hoard lias brought mcli into no iittlf prominence ji its endeavors to improve itself. .Many iUivlillgo liavi' been held duiiuy the fear. ami souio of these have lot-ally be••wiiii- rather memorable; but they have lad the ell'eel of bringing residents and •utrpa\or» to a fuller knowledge of llic [io.-iti<jM "I tin- Hoard than might lane leeu otherwise po.-sible. These lolly'outiuiied M|iiaiti>les ami inability to ;;r----jive .it a euiielu-ii.-n. however, have had in ell'Tl mi [he Hoard's aU'air» other tlian rdiiciil iojial, having resulted in a •on>idcrablc fritt cring away, to no purpose. 01 the Hoard's finanees. The abortive attempts to push forward the loan proposals have, through irregularilies. diminished the Hoards funds by about one-eighth of the total year's income, a mum that will have been irreIricvably ki~f milo-w Hie loan proposals lire carried. Had that amount of money I'eeu expended iii metalling tmmelalle'd poiiions ot the district, the ratepayers would have had something to show' for their money. Xo good purpose will be served by belated criticism, and it is now for t lie ratepayers to calmly ami dNpa*sionnlely consider the proposals now before them before exercising their votes on Thursday. It may be argued that the management in the past has not heen such as to command the confidence of the ratepayers in entrusting the expenditure of some £2700 in their hands. It ia smty faii; is juM out, lu somliattiiig

tins argument, that an entirely now Jioarcl, with one exception, is now in ollici', and consists of business men who, we believe, may safely lie entrusted with the spending of the loan, should Hie proposal lie curried. There seems to lie every good reason why ratepayers should give their sanction "to this loan. II Iho 'i Ist place, the road between town anil the 'bus terminus is too ii:ir|>w to accommodate comfortably and jsafey the rapidly-increasing trallic. I h lespcet to this work, ratepayers '. 101 I'emember that, even if the loan lis not carried, there is an imperative ' m! 01 ,' wi,lonin « llf the road «il have sooner or later to be , . ' 'i i"'l«>rtant. aspect of this mat- | er is (hat arrangements have been made 111 acquire properties for street-widen i „ !ls wi " " ol lll ' available 1 articiilnrly will tin's be the V, 1 '* 1 ,'. ' e M K ' ( 'ted oil developments i.i d.stnci eventuate, and, in a„v ease, it i- s extremely possible that tlie value " !"-'>l>crty wilt SO increase that to seme this land later would mean the pav--11"'" of an amount (| „ilc beyond li„ ' , h r ll:1y ' Tll ° t'"" 1 """Id further commend itself to the ratepayers by reason of (he fact, that it ■ I,nil H• ? llisln ' l, " t «t "ver the ' ; llu ' settlers at (he upper the Tl , , '"" i lliH ( ' x ti'"di«g , ~it ' l3l " f the district, '"d nit lie road are to have tIOOO foricI ie !.!■»,,klands peopl,' seem to be the nl\ section openly hostile to the liro1 ""'i ,li( ' ir opposition is no Inn t I'nsed on sound grounds so far as II own road is concerned, we do not whole .them would wish to sec the »lmle loan jeopardised I>pr f „ . S" !?" 10 portion in whk", \ HI.?, ■ lmim, '" atp 'y concerned. ff7?wsswsr6 """""