VEALE ESTATE RATEPAYERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1917, Page 2

VEALE ESTATE RATEPAYERS.

To the Editor. Sir,—-How pleaaed the ratepayoi'6 in Vole's Estate must feci over the Council's generous treatment (as reported in your paper) of their application for a tank full of water to keep them going until the rain comes! They are 1 Compelled to pay a water rate, and then the Council have the impertinence to as'k them to pay for a tank of water, A one-inch pipe brought acros3 from the Old People's Homo would supply them for • a few years. However, you have the sympathy of the ratepayers. It may be some consolation to you to know that the Council is not neglecting you, as I see Mr; Day states he is going to dump the rubbish from other parts of the Borough into your streets. That will, be in lieu of metalling I expect. I have personally inspected the rubbish which lis being collected from the various 'streets, and can bear out what Mr. Day states that there is really no danger from it. Only it is better collected. Well, I personally think the ratepayers' money would be better spent in creating a big fat screw for another engineer, or an additional inspector, or give it as a gratuity to the genius who originated the idea of squandering the ratepayers' money in this silly fashion, instead of cleaning and metalling the streets. It must be very consoling to the Veale Estate ratepayers to see five street electric lights on the beach in front of a few campers' huts lit Moturoa, also I water and electric light in the aforesaid huts. Very few of them are ratepayers. There are families living along the foreshore who pay £5 per annum', and I am given to unjfc>r3tand are living there permanently. This is not a fair deal to us ratepayers. We have rates, insurances, and loss of interest on our properties to keep All the streets, footpaths, etc., in repair for drones. There are exceptions, I. know, bona fide ratepayers who only live down on the beach a month or two during the summer. I am not referring to them —I am, etc., NEARLY £-20 IN RATES . (RESULTS NIL).