BOROUGH FINANCE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4705, 5 February 1884, Page 2

BOROUGH FINANCE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib, —I am surprised to see that both yourself and your contemporary have fallen into the error of stating the expenses for salaries to the Borough officials to be about £1800. Now I have not examined the Borough books, but surely there must be some mistake in such a statement. The persons in receipt of " salaries " are, I take it, four in number, viz., the Town Clerk, the Collector, the Relieving Officer, and the Messenger, and their united salaries cannot tot up to much more than £700, or not nearly half the amount stated. I am certainly of opinion a small saving can be effected by amalgamating offices, &c, but surely, Sir, it would be advisable to stick to facts when writing pja the subject.—l mta, &c, Batepayms.

[Our correspondent is in error,; we hare never stated that the expenditure on salaries or officials in the Borough, employ amounted to £1800 per annum. >We are ' inclined to think that if "Ratepayer" will go over "the ground igain, he will discover .that our columas never.contained any \taeh Bp^puKiafonMtion.'-*-Ed. Stab,} '- ''''^> r .

(To the Ed!tor of tho>tening Star.) Sib, —The combined;"JPffjht' of ,old Tararu cannot be a faiiTsa^ajjie of the ? intelligence of that locality iurdr. or they , would not require to* read Jth^fjijpQrt of the Boro^h meeting " a cc^pUiof tittes '* ■■ to the ftoddßH|' t|^»'l»'' , Coi^'vil** -0.0i.n35. ;-The'inferwjoe,oH«wa by and his pals;* frott; the j g?~r- .pJV-X oc the whole Council. => *ti'^.ure in Borough affairs #|i>y?" is sure to eventuate" must of TieW^jy cnminr.te the lot, and Messrs MeQ^aa,- Speight, and Mennie cannot ataid'^qttt the Simon Pure any .(nora than the, other* for what bti been ditaTtin'^the paiW »'JM^M^^ " dough - Jias' not gol; :well- '-tttied; The later portion .of / *l^^ o letter is intended to bo very." fanny *&+" i.X some people would call it malevolent^-I >> call it white-livered, why your con tempo-, - rary should open its columns to such a rancorous, mean-spirited, production is a wonder, and when he gives the letter such * a prominent heading, it appears as if he was making his paper a party to a small , . faction in the Council, and rather lets in - the " breeze through his assumed rectitude. At least, "So say all of us." —lain, &c, Young Tabartt. January 5, 1884.