MR PLANT ON MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2559, 20 March 1877, Page 2

MR PLANT ON MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

' Sib,—Will ; you*permil me through the columns of your valuable paper to suggest to the Borough Council, the advisability of making, known to the burgesses the hours at which the rate collector is supposed to attend at the Council Chambers, for the purpose of receiving the Borough rates.-In previous years the collector has made it his business to call on the burgesses at least once after he had given them notice that the rate was due, for the purpose of receiving the same, but, this year for some reason or other (probably because too much of his time is taken.up; with business beyond his duties ai;colv lector for the Borough) the collector re* quires burgesses to wait on him insteadof him waiting on them, he being'.ffieir;, paid servant. I would also sujfgest' that if the present system HiP to 1 be maintained, i.e., that of, Tojijrn" Clerk 1 receiving and giving Receipts' for. rates, in the absence of the collector, that the two offices be performed by one, individual, and the salary of the,other be applied to some better and more useful, purpose.. But, should the Borough" Council in its collective wisdom, decide tomaintain the present officers, i would urge on the burgesses the desirability of paying, theiri rates only to the person appointed to repeive the same, which Ithink would have the desired effect, yi&, that of preventing the collector from filling so many paid offices. The question may be asked why I have not made any allusion to the many offices held by the Town Clerk. To. such I may state that I think everybody except the B.C. are already aware of the whole facts, even the peculiar circumstances under which the Town Clerk has obtained some of those offices, viz, offering to perform the duties, without any salary, which, in my opinion, means" nothing short of a plan to obtain' about double the amount the office is worth in the abape of a vote. —I am, Ac.» W. Plant. Sliortland, March 20th, 1877. ■--■ ,n