Stratford News

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 243, 23 March 1915, Page 3

Stratford News

STRATFORD MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS.

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Nij"> — (ln M idnesday the .ratepayers are invited to vote upon u proposal to borrow £!)0()I1 for the purpose of erecting municipal buildings. Xow, this is a pretty tali order tor a March-end council to ask the ratepayers to undertake, more especially when' it is taken into consideration that tin l present council vacate their seats next, month, with small prospect of the ancients among them sitting on the new council. It in" hoves the Stratford ratepayers to bestir themselves, not liecav.se a forward policy is not required, hut because a sound financially concrete scheme is required at this juncture in the borough's history. If any one wants an object lesson of the incompetence of the present council all they have to do'is to look at the painful waste of money which is taking place in Broadway at the present time! where good sound hygenie gutters are being pulled and broken up. and replaced with insanitary ones, which are both ■i menace to life and limb. 'Hic"> n ( <w gutters will land the bn-r r-.o not very far distant futire 'navy damage's for some serior,; i.ecidcnt. Stratford is in want of some .sound and strongminded men to take charge of its municipal undertakings duringHhe next two years. All its prosperity depends upon the men who are returned next month. Some of the present councillors have been sitting as a dead load upon its destinies for jVftrs past.' Before the burgesss vote for any loan proposals !"( them wait until a comprehensive scheme is brought forward, well thought out and approved by competent men, which I the present proposal jo borrow has not undergone. In the proposed municipal building there is not value for the money. The /'hole thing lacks and does not. compare With similar i-.ndertakhsgs in other towns to the advantage of Stratford. In .aci. it. would be a bctie l : paying proposition f<r the boroi;i'i' ;.■> ]efc the old municipal buildings -Hr. n nd build a new town ha!! suitable to a!! modern requirements, with municipal offices' and library combined. This .buildin" need not neccssarih- be erected on one or the mixt vaUitf.le sections in the borough.—l am, etc.,

RATEPAYER,