NEW TOWN HALL.
(To the Editor.) Sib, — The Lawrence Town Council get plans and so-called specifications, the cost of which they admit they do not know. No one in the Council or out of tho Council knows Tvhat will be the cost of the proposed Town Hall. If its cost came out of the pocket of one or all of the Council, they would then know to a shilling its cost. The hall will bo built on a loan, the interest and principal of which must be paid by the ratepayers, and poor as well as rr-jh ratepayers will have to repay that loan. The Council are anting in the manner lof a child with a costly toy. The ratepayers should never have permitted them to borrow any sum of thousands for a new Hall. Tho cost should have been limited to hundreds, and £900 shoidd be the maximum. If not now too late, the public should have a meeting wherein they would auk the Council not to borrow at all for the new Hall. ' If tho rates will not supply a Hall, let us do without one ; and if the rates cannot build a IlaU, that is au excellent argument again&t building one when we can only afford, honestly afford, to rent a small room. — I am, &c., Economist.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 310, 6 December 1873, Page 3
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220NEW TOWN HALL. Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 310, 6 December 1873, Page 3
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