HURWORTH RIDING ADJUSTMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 99, 24 May 1909, Page 2

HURWORTH RIDING ADJUSTMENT.

To the Editor. .Sir,—l iiin aware that iu again troubling you on the county' rating question 1 am probably trespassing on your generosity, but its importance to a large section of your readers and ratepayers is, I hope, sufficient justification. Apparently nothing less than a .Vtysniith hammer will force into the craniunis of Councillors Hopson and Andrews the consequences which loom up large, as the result, „f their efforts to poach •• i tlie new riding in order to spoon-feed Oiuatn. Perhaps they regard this as another deviation; if so, it is equally badly managed. We have the county chairman's word for it that had the now county eventuated, about ;UKM would be lost to tlie old onp. Now, it is beyond question that two-thirds of this amount is collected in a radius of about \% miles of Xew Plymouth town boundary, i.e., taking a' line through Saxon's on the Carrington lioad. through Woodlcigh, and on to Westown, till it joins St. Aubyns. Does Mr, Hopson and Co want to s i town district formed by the residents in the area I have indicated? If that is their purpose I shall be •rltKl to assist them, the llurworth Hiding has. numbly, .10 miles of road to maintain on the' halfpenny rate. Assuming, for the sake of tliei'r arg enl. that the figures qimied are iipproxiniiilcly eorreei. il. would he infinitely to the advantage of the suburbs mentioned to form that district in order that the two-thirds referred to might, lie spent, inside the boundaries where it is levied. To make this point more clear, I may say that, at the present time there is probably lout) yards of stone on the Oirrington road above the. line I have drawn, and not a stone, not i pebble, below il to improve or maintain the road as it is. Is the Xaysiuith p,.rsunder necessary to impress this on Councillor Hopson and Co? It is a singular fact that not one of the Council made mention of tliis town district alternative. Is it they prayed, that the sleeping dog would lie.—l am, etc.. HKll WORTH.